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DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 28, 1998 Although they hadnt previously met, an Air Force captain here and Defense Secretary William S. Cohen share the same concern: Both agree the military must change its ways to keep quality people.
When Cohen called here in mid-October, the captain, a veteran combat pilot, had things on his mind he wanted the secretary to hear.
"I very much enjoy being in the military, but I'm finding it harder and harder to justify staying in," the captain said. "In my last unit, only two out of 30 pilots -- captains and majors with 12 to 15 years of service -- stayed in the Air Force."
Why are they leaving? Is it the lure of higher civilian pay? No, it's not a matter of money, the captain replied. For most, he said, the rumblings are over how they spend their time.
Pilots and other highly skilled service members are getting out, he said, because they're being deployed repeatedly to places like Bosnia, Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. They're away from their families up to 180 days a year, in some cases even longer.
And the aviators say they are tired of spending too many hours burning gas, flying "holes in the sky." The increase in contingency missions has decreased training time, the captain said, and pilots' skills decline when they fly endless, monotonous sorties over Iraq.
No-fly zone missions no more prepare pilots for combat than driving to work qualifies them to race the Indy 500, he said.
Another problem affecting aviators is a shortage of spare parts, he said. Aircraft assigned to these contingency missions are kept in top form while others are cannibalized for parts and left to do without.
All in all, the captain said, he believed most pilots don't want to leave. They truly love their aircraft and the military, he said, but not the high operations tempo, prolonged family separations and lack of training time.
The captain's observations came as no surprise to Cohen, who's heard the same and others in numerous meetings with troop audiences in recent months. He addressed these common concerns when he spoke to service members at Eskan Village here and at other stops during his visit to the region.
The secretary told troops in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia that the president, Congress and military leaders are aware of service members' concerns about pay, retirement benefits, spare parts, operations tempo and readiness. As a result, he said, the administration is adding more money to the 1999 budget and is looking at ways to improve service members' quality of life.
The Air Force, in particular, Cohen said, is trying to deal with operations tempo by setting up 10 air expeditionary forces. Each self-sustaining, permanent force will have about 175 total aircraft and be capable of performing a variety of missions. At least two forces will be on call at any time, but each will serve only one 90-day on-call rotation every 15 months. Members will always know well in advance when they're slated to deploy.
"We've got to have better control over how many times we keep asking you to deploy," Cohen told the gathered soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. "We understand it's creating a real serious problem, especially in what we call 'high-demand, low- density' specialties."
At an earlier stop, Cohen told service members that less money in the defense coffers has resulted in high operations tempo and reduced readiness. "We have a smaller force [that] we're deploying more and more," he said. "So we're overworking that force -- we're straining that force. We've got to make some adjustments."
The new thrust is to ensure service members are deployed only when necessary, and that government leaders "resist the temptation to be engaged in every single crisis that emerges," Cohen said. "We can't afford to be in every single engagement.
"We try to be very selective on where we become engaged because of the pressure it puts upon a smaller force," he said. "We are conscious of the fact that we are demanding more and more of fewer people. It's having the impact of driving people out [of the military]. We try to exercise as much caution and prudence as we can."
At every stop during his Gulf journey, Cohen said the nation is aware of the missed birthdays, anniversaries and holidays that are part of military life. If service members' families aren't happy, service members won't be happy and they'll leave, Cohen said. It's as simple as that, and that simply won't do, he said.
"We can have the best equipment in the world, and we do, but if we don't have you to operate it, it really doesn't count for very much," Cohen concluded.


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The space agency says researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left from the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island this week to go to Greenland to conduct surveys.
The mission is known as Operation IceBridge. Researchers will gather data on changes to polar ice and maintain continuity of measurements for NASA satellite missions.
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NU Hotel is located on the corner of Smith Street and Atlantic Avenue, two streets that contain dozens of fun shops and eclectic restaurants, tucked into an otherwise unassuming streetscape. It's a safe area of Brooklyn -- as safe or safer than any of the major tourist areas in Manhattan, that is -- and many New Yorkers actually perfer the slower-paced, treelined charm of these streets to the constant noise, trash, and traffic throughout much of Manhattan. And like anywhere in New York, all of the city's famous sites and attractions are easily accessible by subway (three different stations are within three blocks of the hotel).
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Now, was it ever a legitimate threat that the Cardinals would move to Illinois? No, not really. And the same is probably true today with the Rams. That said, would it be so bad if they did move to East St. Louis? A new stadium would at least give you something to look at (other other than a casino and grain silos) when on the St. Louis riverfront.
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Students shine at Capitol for Undergraduate Research Day
CHARLESTON -- Sen. Evan Jenkins, a Democrat who represents Cabell County, expressed amazement Thursday morning at the breadth and depth of research on display in the Capitol Rotunda as part of the 10th annual Undergraduate Research Day.
He also said it had him thinking about the proposed state budget, which has $34 million in cuts to higher education.
"Everybody always talks about the best and brightest, and this is the day you get to meet the best and brightest," Jenkins said. "If we cut higher ed, we're potentially cutting opportunities these students have."
And it's not just opportunities for the students but also the state, he said, noting several projects could impact the future of the state or country. There were several projects related to health care done by Marshall University students, including one on hypertension by sophomore Erin Fankhanel, another on kidney damage and a new drug by Rebekkah and Derek Ramsey, and rehabilitation and recovery options for obesity and eating disorders by Heather Fry and Ericka Staples.
Fankhanel, a biology major from Hurricane, said she loves research because it can make a difference. And, she said she was encouraged to see so many students from higher education who feel the same way.
"It's exciting to see these other people who are like me and who are my age working to advance science," she said.
But it wasn't just health care fields. There were several projects from Marshall's 31 students on computer science and engineering. Senior Alex King developed a new keystroke biometrics security application, while fellow senior Travis Rainey developed a mobile application to help college students track their grades and save screenshots in their phone to ensure accuracy with what the professor is recording.
Both said the technological fields are booming, providing entrepreneurial and research opportunities, even at the undergraduate level.
"It goes to show you the value of undergraduate research," King said. "It could translate into graduate school or a job."
Tessa Maynard and her partner Nathan Tehrani presented research on astronomy data related to pulsars, something Maynard became interested in while attending Tolsia High School in Wayne County. The sophomore at West Virginia University said she is passionate about the research because of the scientific advancement that it could translate to.
Though the projects were very diverse, there was one thing they all had in common, said Charles Somerville, dean of Marshall's College of Science and a member of the event's organizing committee.
"One of the things people don't realize about higher education is the tremendously talented people," he said. "Research can really turn a student around."
John Maher, Marshall's vice president for research, said the work students are doing is on par with that done at the best universities in the country.
"This event provides a unique opportunity for members of the Legislature to see an aspect of higher education normally hidden from public view, but that is one of the most important tools for developing students for entry into the workplace or postgraduate education," Maher said.
In addition to Marshall, 14 other universities and colleges will be represented at the event, including Alderson-Broaddus College, Bluefield State College, Concord University, Fairmont State University, Glenville State College, Ohio Valley University, Shepherd University, University of Charleston, West Liberty University, West Virginia State University, West Virginia University, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Wheeling Jesuit University and WVU Institute of Technology.
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The following is a list of Marshall University students who participated in Thursday's Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston.
Kristen Bobuk, Belle Vernon, Pa., engineering, "Design and Construction of a Model Steel Bridge to Meet Specifications for Competition"
Rebekkah Brown, Cross Lanes, biochemistry, "Resveratrol Reduces Kidney Injury induced by Hydrogen Peroxide"
Luke Brumfield, Barboursville, computer science/information technology, "Expert System for Reverse Mathematics"
James Caldwell, Hurricane, computer science/information technology, "Creation of the Inventory College of Information Technology and Engineering (IN-CITE) Project for Real-Time Management of Laboratory Equipment"
Erin Fankhanel, Hurricane, biology, "Use of cerium oxide nanoparticles for the treatment of pulmonary and cardiac remodeling during pulmonary arterial hypertension in Sprague Dawley rats"
Matthew Ferguson, Barboursville, computer science/information technology, "Calculating PageRank in Cloud Computing"
Heather Fry, Kenova, psychology, "Obesity Objectives"
Robert Gaum, Charleston, computer science/information technology, "Creation of the Inventory College of Information Technology and Engineering (IN-CITE) Project for Real-Time Management of Laboratory Equipment"
Joseph Hall, Lawrence, Ohio, computer science/information technology, "MarcOS"
Bradley Hammond, Huntington, computer science/information technology, "Building inverted indexing in Cloud Computing"
Finley Hammond, Huntington, computer science/information technology, "Marshall University Cybersecurity Research and Education System (CRES) version 3"
Courtney Hatten, Wayne, chemistry, "Pyrolysis Products from the Thermal Decomposition of Butyraldehyde"
William Hice, Oak Hill, psychology, "Tests of resiliency models of women's criminal behavior"
Alex King, Fairmont, computer science/information technology, "LockoutII"
Cameron Loader, Sugar Land, Texas, computer science/information technology, "Data Mining for Diabetes Medical Data"
Kyle Merritt, Lesage, engineering, "Design and Evaluation of a Canoe Constructed of Concrete"
Rikki Miller, Ripley, biochemistry, "Kidney Damage by Cisplatin is Protected by Resveratrol in a Human Kidney Cell Line"
James Moore, Barboursville, computer science/information technology, "Web Application for the Search Committee on Recognizing Excellent Students (SCORES)"
Emmanuel Pittore, Wayne, computer science/information technology, "Marshall University Cybersecurity Research and Education System (CRES) version 3"
Travis Rainey, Fraziers Bottom, computer science/information technology, "Grade Tracker"
Derek Ramsey, Caldwell, biochemistry, "Resveratrol Reduces Kidney Injury induced by Hydrogen Peroxide"
Nicholas Riggleman, Evans, computer science/information technology, "Quality Control for a Non-Profit Organization"
Michelle Schaller, Morgantown, psychology, "Tests of resiliency models of women's criminal behavior"
Sean Sovine, Huntington, computer science/information technology, "MIDAS: Multiple-Inferencing Document Automatic Summarization"
Caleb Spencer, Huntington, computer science/information technology, "Expert System for Reverse Mathematics" and "Calculating PageRank in Cloud Computing"
Anthony Stephenson, Ironton, Ohio, biochemistry, "The effect of glycerol availability on the production of triacylglycerols in Chlorella vulgaris"
Ericka Staples, Beckley, psychology, "Obesity Objectives"
Kasey Stickler, Huntington, biochemistry, "Comparison of Lipid Accumulation in Photomixotrophically and Heterotrophically Grown Chlorella vulgaris Cultures under Nitrogen and Nitrogen-Starved Conditions"
Morgan Stickler, Huntington, biochemistry, "Comparison of Lipid Accumulation in Photomixotrophically and Heterotrophically Grown Chlorella vulgaris Cultures under Nitrogen and Nitrogen-Starved Conditions"
Brian Warner, Lawrence, Ohio, chemistry, "Pyrolysis Products from the Thermal Decomposition of Pivaldehyde"
Emily Wright, Beckley, chemistry, "Pyrolysis Products from the Thermal Decomposition of Pivaldehyde"
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A Retiring Glance At Trade – Past, Present And Future
As my tenure at UK Trade & Investment draws to a close, it's time for a little reflection…
emita is pleased to announce Davis Produce as August's Member of the Month. You can find out more about this local company below from their Managing Director, Peter Davis, including the company's overseas challenges, international achievements and plans for the future.
1. Please provide a company background including when it was established, where it is located, how many staff you employ etc.
Davis Worldwide was established by Peter Davies in 1999 after seeing a need for bringing growers together to market and develop the fresh produce industry to supermarkets, caterers and wholesale outlets. Since 1999 we have now opened operations in
We employ in total 15 members of staff in the sales, however we have a great deal of 3rd party employment in the picking/packing/preparation of the products and we estimate that our 3rd party operators have approx 100 people working for us in the different sectors.
We are located in Louth Lincolnshire, in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds, however we do have an accounts office based in
2. Please provide an overview of the products and services offered and areas of specialisation.
We specialise in produce from
3. How did you find out about emita and what benefits do you find the most valuable?
In any market, especially true of the fresh produce industry, it is so important to stay ahead of the game, and make sure that as a company and as a director we do not fall behind the competition. this is why we find Emita so important, it keeps us abreast of the markets, opens up new challenges to us and allows us to network with other decision makers and hopefully drive the company forwards.
I appreciate the time that we have afterwards to network and meet with people that in our normal daily routine we would not meet with. A great opportunity to discuss problems together and often find the answer we were looking for!
4. How long has your company been active in the export / import market and which countries do you currently trade with?
We started exporting in 2001, and our first year showed £ 263,000 worth of export to
5. What made you decide to expand your business overseas?
We realised that the market was ever expanding, and as such we needed a presence in the countries with which we were trading.
Our own operation out there allows us to:
6. What has been your biggest exporting / importing challenge?
Our biggest challenge was delivering the product quickly and efficiently, we have orders at the moment to export produce to Saudi Arabia, the product has to arrive in optimum conditions, so we find ourselves for example cutting cauliflowers at before the sun gets too hot, pre cooling them by , getting them on a lorry to Heathrow for a for a flight out at 6.30pm!!! You can imagine the stress that this can put us under!!
7. What's the most helpful piece of international trade advice you have received?
For us, there is not one particular thing that stands out, however I feel that when it comes to international trade it is so important to know your country, your market and your client. Understand your client's problems, check and double check his credit rating. Start trading slowly and build the business up over a period of time.
8. What does the future hold? Any particular markets you are looking to target next?
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Feb. 14, 1967 J, KNOTT 3,303,902
EAR PIECE Filed Dec. 20; 1965 INVENTOR. JAMES M. KNOTT Wow, QZI r04 2? ATTO R N EYS United States Patent M 3,303,902 EAR PIECE James M. Knott, Wellesley, Mass., assignor to Coatings Engineering Corporation, South Natick, Mass. Filed Dec. 20, 1965, Ser. No. 515,070 6 Claims. (Cl. 181-23) This invention relates generally to ear pieces for use with sound equipment and more particularly is directed towards a new and improved ear cushion attachment for use with head phones, stethoscopes, office transcribing equipment and similar hearing devices.
In certain types of air driven sound equipment, such as used aboard airplanes for passenger use for example, earphones are provided for each passenger. The passenger may plug his set into an adjacent outlet and select various audio channels such as the sound track for a movie being shown, music or the like. Each head set is provided with detachable ear pieces that are replaced at the end of each flight for sanitary purposes.
Heretofore headsets of the foregoing type become uncomfortable if worn for any extended period insofar as the ear pieces press against the wearers ears. Existing ear pieces for this type of equipment have been'unsatisfactory for various reasons. As a result, they are uncomfortable to Wear for any great length of time. Furthermore, their cost has been relatively high and they do not provide a universal fit for all wearers.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide improvements in ear pieces for use with sound transmission equipment of various types.
Another object of this invention is to provide a low cost, efiicient and comfortable ear piece which will readily conform to the ear contours without producing discomforting pressures on the ear.
A further object of this invention is to provide 'a replaceable ear piece for head phones and the like and adapted to provide a universal fit for wearers.
More particularly this invention features an ear cushioning piece for attachment to an ear phone, comprising a thin ply of resilient material molded into a double walled tubular configuration one end of which is outwardly flared into a hollow conical configuration to form a bell-shaped hollow body. The inner and outer walls are spaced from one another to define an annular volume between the two walls with the two walls being connected to one another about the outer annular edge of the enlarged end portion. The opposing end of the inner wall is dimensioned to fit over a tubular post such as formed on ear phone head pieces, for example, whereby the ear piece may be readily slipped on and off for replacement. The soft double walled construction provides an extremely comfortable fit to the wearers ear, sealing the car from spurious sounds and conforming readily to the ear contours.
However, these and other features of the invention, along with further objects and advantages thereof, will become more readily apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, with refernce being made to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a view in front elevation, with portions broken away, of a headset of the sort used with various types of audio equipment,
FIG. 2 is a detailed sectional view on an enlarged scale showing an ear piece made according to the invention and mounted on an ear phone component shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a view in perspective of an ear piece made according to the invention,
FIG. 4 is a rear elevation thereof, and,
FIG. 5 is a sectional side elevational view of the invention.
3,303,902 Patented Feb. 14, 1967 Referring now to the drawings and particularly to FIG. 1, there is illustrated a typical headset of the sort employed with audio equipment such as installed for passenger use in airplanes and the like and disclosed more fully in US. Patent 3,217,831. The head set, which is generally indicated by the reference character 10, includes a curved springy headband 12 adapted to "be clamped over the head. The head band is typically of a tubular plastic material and carries at each end molded housings 14 and 16. Each housing is formed with an inwardly projecting tubular post 18 on each of which is mounted a detachable ear piece 20. The housing 16 is also provided with tubular posts 22 to which is connected to pair of flexible tubes 24 carrying plugs 26 their ends for connection with a sound outlet.
Referring now more particularly to FIGS. 2 through 5 the ear piece will now be described in detail.
In general, the ear piece is of molded construction formed from a relatively soft, self-supporting resilient material such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC), rubber or the like. In any event, the ear piece 20 is molded into a hollow, double-walled, bell-shaped configuration as best shown in FIG. 5. The ear piece is formed with a cylindrical tubular inner wall 28, providing a central sound passage 2%, the inside diameter of which is such as to fit snugly over a tubular post 18 as inFIG. l and is on the order of /2 inch or so in length and typically 4 inch in diameter. The wall thickness is quite thin being on the order of 10 to 3G thousandths of an inch. The inner wall 28 at its left-hand end as viewed in FIG. 5 flares outwardly to form a cone portion 39 having 'a smoothly rounded inner curve at 32 where it originates at the inner wall 28 and a smoothly rounded outer annular curved portion 34. From the curved end portion 34, the resilient outer wall extends back towards the opposite end of the ear piece, arching outwardly at 36 and then curving inwardly to form an outer tubular wall 38 concentric with but spaced from the inner tubular wall 28.
The outside diameter of the outer tubular wall 38 typically is and the overall length of the ear piece typically is on the order of The maximum diameter of the piece at the enlarged head end thereof is on the order of /8 of an inch. It will be understod that these dimensions are all by way of example and that specific dimen sions may be varied in accordance with particular require ments to fit particular equipment.
The ear piece defines an annular inner volume 49 between the spaced inner and outer walls which is relatively large at the head or left hand end of the piece, but is reduced at the right hand end thereof. In any event, the ear piece is of hollow construction and the walls thereof are of a soft pliant material so that the piece may be readily deformed by pressure contact between the ear piece and the ear itself. It will be understod that the dimensions of the ear piece are such that it is intended for the piece to fit within the ear rather than over the entire car as is the case with certain types of ear phones. Insofar as the ear canal is of irregular contour, it is desirable that the ear piece conform itself to the ear surface in order that the ear piece will seal against the ear to prevent the entrance of spurious noises. It is also desirable that the ear piece conform to the ear contours in order that the pressure contact between the ear piece and the ear will be uniform throughout. If the pressure is evenly distributed and is relatively light, it will be comfortable to the wearer and there will be no sharp pressure points causing pain or discomfort to the wearer. Insofar as the ear piece illustrated herein is extremely soft and is of hollow thin wall construction it conforms readily to the ear contours providing an excellent seal between the ear and the piece and providing an excellent cushion so that the head set and ear pieces may be worn for extended periods without pain or discomfort.
The ear piece has other advantages in that it is quite sanitary insofar as the outer wall provides a smooth finished surface all about the ear piece and the two thin Walls cooperate in such a manner as to provide a more efficient and more comfortable fit than is the case with a single walled type of ear piece. The two soft walls by reason of their resiliency and pliancy bear against a greater amount of ear surface than is the case with a single wall ear piece. The ear pieces are extremely easy and inexpensive to manufacture since they may be readily molded by machining a mandrel in the form of the inner volume of the ear piece, dipping the mandrel in liquefied molding material and then allowing the coating to cure.
The soft, pliant, double-walled construction permits relatively free lateral displacement of the enlarged head end of the piece so that it may be more or less pivoted with respect to the head band. In this fashion, a single size head band provides an almost universal fit insofar as the ear pieces will accommodate themselves to the wearers ears regardless of whether or not they are in precise alignment.
While the invention has been described with particular reference to the illustrated embodiment it will be understood that numerous modifications thereto will appear to those skilled in the 'art. Although the ear piece has been described in connection with the illustrated headphones obviously it may also be employed to advantage with various other sound devices such as stethoscopes, office transcribing machines, radio equipment and the like.
Having thus described the invention, what I claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. An eiar piece for a headset having a tubular post defining a sound passage, comprising,
(a) a unitary body of a soft resilient material,
(b) said body being formed with inner and outer concentric tubular walls spaced from one another to define an annular volume therebetween extending from end to end of said body,
(c) the inner and outer wall being joined to one another at one end thereof and disconnected at the opposite end, (d) the outside diameter of said body at said one end 'being enlarged to fit within the external ear of the wearer and over the ear canal opening, and,
(e) means mounting the opposite end of said body to the end of said post whereby only a minor portion of said body is telescoped over said post and the major portion of said body extends out from the end of said .post to permit angular deformation of said major portion.
2. An ear piece according to claim 1 wherein said walls are of substantially uniform thickness throughout.
3. An ear piece according to claim 1 wherein said one end of said body is of a conical configuration.
4. An ear piece according to claim 1 wherein said inner tubular wall is dimensioned to err-gage said post.
5. An ear piece according to claim 1 wherein the inner and outer walls are free from one another at the opposite end of said body.
6. An ear piece for 'a head set having a post, compris- (a) a unitary body of a soft resilient material,
(b) said body being formed with substantially coextensive inner and outer concentric tubular walls joined at one end and disconected at the other end and spaced from one another to define an annular volume there'between,
(c) the walls :at said one end diverging outwardly to form an enlarged conical end portion,
((1) the opposite end of said inner tubular wall being dimensioned to telescopically engage the end of said post whereby a minor portion of said body is telescope over said post with the major portion of said body extending freely outwards from the end of said post.
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Although the meeting covers all T-cell lymphomas, there were several presentations specific to cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and posters presented by experts in the field. Drs. Pierluigi Porcu, Youn Kim, Madeleine Duvic, Christiane Querfeld and Miles Prince were among the cutaneous lymphoma presenters.
The major take-away from this meeting was research to understand the molecular basis of T-cell lymphomas is ongoing and is essential to help ensure that new drugs and other therapies being developed specifically target the different types of T-cell lymphomas.
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Been playing guitar for about 4 or 5 years now. Started off playing...I don't even know what I'd call it; 'Warped Tour' music, I guess. But I then switched to acoustic and have been messing around with that for awhile. But it seems I've plateaued, especially concerning the speeds of my left and right hands.
Does anyone know of some great ways to break the duck and become a better guitar player?
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what people call a plateau is an artificial construct, and is always capable of being broken.
when people begin doing something new, they change a method to obtain results. perhaps you want to get fit. so you change your lifestyle by incorporating more exercise and watching your diet. however, at some point, you will hit the plateau. this is because the method you are using will only get you results up to the point at which you currently have them.
playing the guitar is the same way. whatever method you've been utilizing has gotten you the results that you have thus far. maybe it's a lot, and maybe it's not. that's irrelevant -- what matters is that you have the results you have now and only the results you have now.
when you can assess the situation and discern the problem this clearly, the solution is very simple.
you must step out of your comfort zone. study material that you never would have even considered listening to three days ago.
you will find that your results will come in leaps and bounds if you can do this.l
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Welker is the key to the offense, the best player on offense by far (after Tom Brady).
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No, not from the garden. Our garden has just about done it's time. It's just too dry around here. We had a good run. It was a pretty good garden this year.
I'm talking about another kind of carrot. The kind that you tie on a string and hold on a stick in front of a donkey to get him to walk. Except my kids aren't donkeys and they wouldn't walk 2 inches to get to a raw carrot. (Little Bit loves cooked carrots but that would be hard to tie on a string, huh?)
I'm trying to make a schedule for the school year is what I'm telling you. And this post had some good wisdom. Basically, each time a break comes up in the school day, you need a "carrot" to get them back to the table.
Well, I don't NEED anything to get them back. I am very capable of telling them to come and they will come and I will nip all complaining in the bud. But I think it's wise to pre-plan to avoid those scenarios, don't you?
I had never really thought about it before. Anything with the promise of drawing or coloring will get them back. Just something that they will look forward to doing.
I think it's safe to say math is not a carrot. Not for my kids anyway.
So I'm going back to the drawing board. Also, I realized I scheduled breaks for each girl but NONE FOR ME! This will not work. Mom needs a few minutes to walk away during the day, you know?
I think I'm going to start over.
"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self...to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." Ephesians 4:22-24
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We have been working on what time to get up in the morning. Mon's sure do need a break.ReplyDelete
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Specific goals, research keys to running resolution
CORPUS CHRISTI - In this season of New Year's resolutions, the SMART acronym for goal setting — specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely — is an excellent guideline.
As a runner, however, how exactly do you set a specific goal? This predicament can confound newbies and veterans alike. It's tough to gauge exactly how much improvement is realistic. Goals that are too easy don't challenge us, but overly difficult goals can lead to frustration and injury.
Since running is highly measurable, however, goal setting can become a calculated exercise, and a growing number of free online tools can help.
If you're just getting started running, it is best to set goals based on distance rather than speed. Some people want to run a mile nonstop, while others aim for a specific race such as a 5K. Halhigdon.com and coolrunning.com both offer week-by-week training plans with beginner options.
For runners with a few races under their belts, some nifty calculators can help prepare for longer or faster runs. Runningforfitness.org uses your age, gender, and a previous race time to predict your finish times for races of other distances.
This time prediction can serve as a guideline on training for longer or faster runs. Say, for example, you enter your 5K time and get a 10K race prediction. Under the "training & plans" section of runnersworld.com, a training pace calculator will let you enter this predicted time to generate goal paces for the long runs, easy runs, and tempo runs you do while training.
Once you have settled on a race goal, runnersworld.com also has a calculator to generate a wristband with mile-by-mile split times to help you stick with your chosen pace during the race.
No calculator can make running easier, but making your goals specific is one of the best ways to ensure that you achieve them.
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R.I.P. St. Louis Hostess Plant; Most Delicious Field Trip EVER!
"Those Twinkies are sold to farmers and fed to hogs."
Fed to hogs!? The blasphemy! No sooner had the words left our tour guide's lips than half the kids in our class rushed the conveyor belt and furiously began stuffing their faces with Twinkies. We had to. It was that or let the spongy yellow goodness end up as pig slop.
Alarm bells rang. Mrs. Robin freaked out. Parent chaperones grabbed us by the scruff and tossed us back toward the factory floor. The foreman on the Twinkie belt shut down the line. And our gracious, but clearly frazzled, tour guide quickly wrapped up our visit.
Yet unlike the bad children visiting Willy Wonka's candy factory, we were rewarded all the same. Each of us got a Hostess treat of his or her choosing to eat before boarding the bus for the journey back to school.
I remember sitting toward the back of the bus -- enjoying the sugar buzz of a Twinkie -- when we passed by the old Vess bottling plant in north St. Louis. It was the first time I'd ever seen the gigantic soda bottle that stood outside the plant. I remember thinking to myself then, "Wow. St. Louis has a Hostess factory and what has to be the biggest soda bottle in the world? This place is pretty sweet."
Thirty years later I still think the same, even if we're losing some of our flavor with the closure of the Hostess plant.
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Mayor Mike Seferian said his administration may come up with a recommendation to council to have sidewalks installed in the city.
"The topic of sidewalks has come up several times," said Seferian.
The sidewalks would be in subdivisions or businesses where they weren't installed completely, he said.
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Come 2015, unlimited trash service will no longer be available in Oak Harbor.
"It was getting out of hand," Oak Harbor Village Administrator Randy Genzman said. "Some families were coming together and putting out an unbelievable amount of trash."
None of three vendors who submitted bids to provide garbage hauling services in the central Ottawa County village for the next three years included the unlimited trash as a service option.
As of Wednesday, two smokestacks are down in East Toledo, and the tallest one remains.
It is one promise that Mayor D. Michael Collins' kept — telling East Toledo residents at a town hall meeting that on July 16 two smokestacks from the razed Acme power plant in the Marina District will come down.
Oregon officials defended their great city in the wake of recently being ranked as the 10th most boring city in Ohio by Movoto, a residential real estate blog.
Lindsay Myers, executive director of the Oregon on the Bay Regional Economic Development Foundation, said she "was a little miffed" when she read the blog.
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Lee Memorial Health System Recognized with VHA Southeast Bright Ideas Award
Lee Memorial Health System is the recipient of a VHA Southeast Bright Ideas Award. The health system's palliative care team has received the Care Coordination Improvement Award for avoiding costs and lowering readmission rates while maintaining excellent patient satisfaction.
The award comes from VHA Southeast, a regional office of VHA Inc., a cooperative that serves not-for-profit health care organizations across the United States. LMHS was recognized for avoiding $9.8 million in costs while also improving 30 day readmission rates and gaining 100 percent patient satisfaction. Palliative care service, also known as Q-Life, is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary support team that cares for patients with advanced illness.
The palliative care services team created an outpatient palliative care clinic to continue the integrated care team model when patients are discharged from the hospital.
"Gaps in care can occur after discharge. Patients have different needs once they are back at home," explains Andrew Esch, M.D., LMHS Palliative Care Medical Director. "Having a team dedicated to outpatient needs helps to fill those gaps and keep patients on track with their care, avoiding complications and readmissions."
Award winners are determined by their regional VHA Southeast executive committee members of the Board of Directors. VHA Inc., based in Irving, Texas, is a national network of not-for-profit health care organizations that work together to drive maximum savings in the supply chain arena, set new levels of clinical performance, and identify and implement best practices to improve operational efficiency and clinical outcomes. VHA serves more than 1,350 hospitals and more than 72,000 non-acute care providers nationwide.
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Increase production - Solution to highfood, fuel prices is more food and fuel
There's an old joke about astronomers discovering a giant meteor heading toward the Earth, and The Washington Post running the headline: "World To End; Minorities and Poor To Suffer Most." Well, on Sunday the front page of the Post read: "The New Economics of Hunger." In the subhead: "The world's poor suffer most."
First, it is not clear that the economics of hunger are any different now than they have been in the past. There is still supply and demand.
Second, if you happen to be a poor farmer, increasing prices for crops should not make you "suffer most" — they should make you suffer less.
The Post article asserts that corn prices have "been climbing for months on the back of booming government-subsidized ethanol programs." This has quickly become the conventional wisdom.
But while free market types (like me) are skeptical, there is actually no evidence that market manipulations have been a major factor behind rising prices for corn or other grains. Researchers Robert Zubrin and Gal Luft point out that the total U.S. corn crop has increased 45 percent since 2002. The amount of corn available for food and feed has increased 34 percent — after ethanol.
But haven't those farmers cut back on other crops? Apparently not. As Zubrin and Luft note, U.S. soy plantings this year are expected to be up 18 percent and wheat plantings up 6 percent, and overall, U.S farm exports are up 23 percent.
American farmers are rational businessmen. When the prices that crops command rise, they produce more.
The Post blames higher prices on global warming. But there is no evidence that whatever global climate change we have has reduced food production. In fact, a warmer climate should mean a longer growing season.
So what is really driving up the cost of food? Some of the world's poor are not as poor as they once were.
What's sudden is the sharp spike in oil prices — 40 percent this year. That makes it expensive to operate a tractor, to get crops from farms to factories, for workers to get to factories.
Oil does not operate within a free market. Saudi Arabia, Iran and other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries manipulate supply to maximize their revenues. And our transportation system has been constructed so that oil has a virtual monopoly as a transportation fuel.
What is needed is to get back to basics: Increase supplies of food and fuels, and prices will come down. Send food aid to those who are starving. But over the longer run, Third World farmers need to grow more of their own food.
As for transportation fuel, drill more oil (for example, in Alaska and offshore), but also give petroleum competition by manufacturing cars that can use a variety of fuels. The technology for flexible-fuel vehicles already exists, and the added cost is hardly more than it takes to fill the tank of an SUV with $4-a-gallon gasoline.
Do that, and an array of alcohol-based fuels soon will be available. Some of them will be made in the United States. With increased supply and a competitive market, fuel prices will fall and the dollars you do spend can lift African farmers from poverty.
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An attorney, doctor and lobbyist pleaded with lawmakers on Wednesday to slow the pace of a program overhaul that they say has knocked patients off organ transplant waiting lists or upended care that kept chronic diseases under control.
The changes are part of a wide-ranging plan that is meant to improve care and cut costs in the state's Medi-Cal program, California's version of Medicaid. In June, the first wave of Medi-Cal patients moved to managed care plans.
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The highlights:
- Finally felt baby girl move this week!! It happened on Monday at work, which just so happened to be a super crazy day where I didn't get to eat lunch until about 2 pm. Right after I ate, I felt a few little flips and flutters. It was like she saying, "Thanks, mom. I've been starving."
- Loving all things edible right now. My appetite is fierce.
- We are heading to Ikea tomorrow to pick up a few things for the nursery.
- It's our first time ever going to Ikea. I cannot wait. Any tips?
- The hubs has been totally amazing lately, dealing with my crazy hormone mood swings and my perfectionist behavior all at once as we try to prepare for a baby AND sell our house.
- It's all starting to really feel real...there's a baby on the way! 4 months to go!
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In the modern era of today, no voice should be hidden. However, in the eras of yesterday, tomorrow, and even today, there are voices that remain obscured. These voices are not those of the mainstream. Instead, these voices are those of the tributaries of a larger issue and while the mainstream rages in and out of control, the small creeks and tributaries that feed the larger body of water become drowned.
Lynden Harris knows about the smaller creeks and tributaries and the unnoticed nooks, from where water flows and also where voices are hidden.
Harris is the director of Hidden Voices, a nonprofit organization based in Cedar Grove, whose main focus is to provide an outlet or stage for people to tell of struggles that often are hidden.
Harris moved to Cedar Grove two decades ago from Atlanta. She is the past director of the Carrboro Arts Center and it was through her work here that she established the idea that people could tell of their life, struggles, challenges and truths, through the medium of acting or media presentation. "Hidden voices helps people tell their own stories about difficult subjects," says Harris. With about 100 volunteers, a board of directors, and her partner in Hidden Voices, Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Harris says that the dedication of this group and the project is to share with the mainstream the issues that affect others – issues that are often overlooked.
"We help people tell stories by use of digital media, the Internet, exhibits, small projects, photographs and acting," Harris says. When the Hidden Voices organization identifies a project or subject matter, it becomes the labor of volunteers to extend effort to those whose voice will be told.
"We essentially allow the person or subject to tell us of their story and we write that into a script. Sometimes the actual people tell or act their stories on stage and other times we might have an actor that portrays a particular subject," Harris says of how an issue becomes something for others to witness. "An example of some of our work is going into jails and prisons to tell the stories of those that live a life incarcerated. By using the vehicle of acting and performance we are able to bring out the issues that became their stories and empower them to share their lives with others," says Harris.
According to Harris, the organization is devoted to the efforts to examine subjects that affect all of us, whether we are in the stream or sitting on the banks in observance. Harris speaks passionately about the work of her organization and she talked of the ability to change an issue by exploring the issue and delivering that to a diverse audience.
One such issue that Harris shared is that of the "School to Prison Pipeline." Granted, there is not a community that wishes to acknowledge such a pipeline exists. However, Harris quotes that almost 80 percent of those in prison and jails are uneducated.
"We examined how our educational system and even society as a whole is set up, involuntarily, to exclude or create a pipeline from school to prison. We know there is a line between race and poverty and education, but we wanted to explore deeper into the subject and know why this is. In order to accomplish this we navigated the systemic reasons and ask all that might have a role in this unknown pipeline, what reasons dominantly contribute," says Harris.
To conduct this exploration, Harris' volunteers interviewed and met with educational, judicial, community and even those incarcerated to learn and understand what factors might channel a group down an unwanted path to prison. "Our work has been referenced and the Senate is currently asking for testimony regarding some of our findings," Harris said.
Through the use of acting, scripts, media and other modes of telling the stories of those voices that are hidden, Harris describes feelings of oppression and isolation as contributing factors to why some youths involuntarily embark on a pipeline to prison. "We are connecting communities by providing testimony that is important to us all and this is all from voices that have been hidden," says Harris.
Of the performances that serve as the backbone to how messages are delivered, Harris says that these modes of communication are powerful and that they connect many diverse populations. "We have had audience members report that their attitudes have changed from witnessing a single performance," Harris said.
Topics that have been voiced, that were previously hidden, range from racism, to poverty, to abuse, to other hot topics that indirectly affect all of us, whether we are in the mainstream or a small flowing trickle of water.
Harris explains that the idea for this organization was to formally move challenging issues from the shadows to the stage and subsequently, into the discussions of all communities.
In describing the performances, Harris offers, "When an audience listens and comes to a performance they leave heavier with emotion and the performers will leave lighter, by getting their voice heard."
Like most nonprofits, the Hidden Voices organization relies upon volunteers and donations to ensure its mission statements are being met. Of this organization and the work that is being performed in this community and the many communities of this area, it is important that those that have been affected by isolation and oppression, no matter the cause, be given an opportunity to have their voices heard. One such way to discover the voice that is hiding is to give that voice an opportunity to be found.
We should all hope that this informal pipeline that exists from school to prison, be one day interrupted. This interruption may well begin with voices that were once hidden, being spoken on stage.
Do you have a feature story idea? Contact Jason Hawkins at email@example.com.
For more information, to contribute or to volunteer, contact hiddenvoices.org.


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TAPPER: You talk about your leadership on the debt ceiling issue, but Rick Santorum, who came in fourth in the straw poll, called your position on just refusing to raise the debt ceiling, he said it was not only irresponsible, but outrageous, since immediately the government would have to cut 40 percent of the government. What cuts would you make?
BACHMANN: Well, it's not outrageous at all. What's outrageous is turning us into the biggest debtor in the history the world. No nation has ever been in debt to the level that we are. And it wasn't that long ago that we were the world's largest creditor. We have to get our house in order. This year alone, we've brought in $2.2 trillion in revenue from all the taxes we pay in, and then we spent not only every penny of that, but we spent $1.5 trillion more.
TAPPER: Right. So what would you cut?
BACHMANN: That's a problem.
TAPPER: What would you cut?
BACHMANN: Well, immediately, I think what we need to do is recognize that we will tell the markets that we will pay the interest on the debt, don't worry about default. Number two, we will pay our men and women in military. It'd be irresponsible not to. And anyone who's currently on Social Security, you get paid. But beyond that, I would bring all members of Congress together. And this isn't some project for 10 years and 15 years down the road. Right now, we're going to reform entitlements. We're going to reform them for anyone who's currently not on them. We're going to change them so that they'll work, because...
TAPPER: Medicare, Medicaid?
BACHMANN: Medicare, Medicaid, they have to be changed. Why should we continue to run these program the way we did 45 years ago? Systems have changed. We can -- we can make these far more efficient than what they are. Social Security is another program, 80 years old. Why would we continue to run it in the same way we did 80 years ago? Let's modernize it so it's there for people who depend on it.
TAPPER: One last question I wanted to ask about. You once characterized homosexuality as, quote, "personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement." Do you believe that?
BACHMANN: Well, I am running to be the president of the United States. I am not running to be any person's judge. And I give -- I ascribe dignity and honor to all people, no matter who they are. And that's how I view people.
TAPPER: So you would appoint an openly gay or lesbian person to your administration?
BACHMANN: I would look, first of all, will they uphold the Constitution of the United States? And, number two, are they competent to do what they need to do? And are they the best at who they are? That's my criteria, nothing more.
TAPPER: Last question, and that is, does Pawlenty leaving the race and Rick Perry coming into the race change your strategy at all?
BACHMANN: Well, I think every day going forward we'll take a look at what's happening with strategy, but our main strategy is to win. Obama is my strategy. I intend to be the nominee of the Republican Party and to take him on and to defeat him in 2012, because we have to turn the economy around and create jobs. That's what I'm going to do. And I'm committed to not resting until we repeal Obamacare.
TAPPER: All right. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, thanks so much for joining us, and congratulations again.
BACHMANN: Jake, thank you.


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As Robert Kagan sees it, Barack Obama's foreign policy so far is nearly identical to George W. Bush's. Vigorous engagement with China was a hallmark of the Bush years. So too was the ever "hopeful" but static back-and-forth with Pyongyang on nuclear development — a policy Hillary Clinton has continued. Obama's sending 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan is simply a holdover plan from the Bush administration, as is Obama's commitment to the parameters of our status of forces agreement with Iraq.
Kagan points out that Obama is even following Bush's example in allowing a gulf to form between rhetoric and policy when it comes to democracy promotion. With all due respect to Kagan, I think he's being a little unfair to the last president. It's true; the end of George W. Bush's second term saw a more meager White House "freedom agenda" than the first, while the language of democracy promotion never ceased. But it's hard to name a president since Ronald Reagan who did more for the promotion of democracy in foreign lands. Bush liberated tens of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and changed the dominant debate in the entire Muslim world to tyranny vs. democracy. The ineffectiveness of Bush's second term was due in large part to the domestic and international animus incurred by his bold first term.
Moving backward from Bush: While Bill Clinton was right to nourish Russian reform in various ways, hindsight shows he did not make the most of this post-Cold War opportunity. There was nothing left in place to check the rise of a Vladimir Putin or to set a clear path for balancing NATO obligations against keeping Russia on course. Clinton had an outsized faith in the power of free markets to do the work of democratic reform. It's a faith that guided his China policy as well. He expanded trade with China, but while that country has become more economically dynamic in the intervening years, its human rights progress has been pitiful and its democratic reform minuscule. Just today we read that the chairman of the National People's Congress, Wu Bangguo, declared China to be on the "path of socialism with Chinese characteristics," adding that "the Western model of a legal system cannot be copied mechanically in establishing our own." George H. W. Bush, also a proponent of opening global markets, had no specific freedom agenda to speak of. After meeting our international obligation to rid Kuwait of Saddam Hussein, Bush 41 let Kurds and Iraqi Shiites (and, to a less fatal extent, millions of Iraqi Sunnis) continue to suffer under the brutal Baathist regime.
If Barack Obama manages to liberate a fraction of the number of people who now have George W. Bush to thank for their freedom, he will have made himself and his nation proud.


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Do these qualify as "Robots?" (Robot Musing like KingArt13)
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Andrew (IngobleGnome) and I got a little off-topic in a post about Chris the Carpenter's newest offering from Rocketbrand studios:
Tweetable version is this: Does a $12 solar robotikit count as a real robot if there's no neural network, and if not, do half of the "beam" robots that you can find instructions for on line?
Here are some examples:
I have a solar powered radio and a rechargeable flashlight on my desk-I would tend to think that a robot that doesn't move or react to stimulus is no more a robot either of those things are. The symet, by comparrison, is really just an electric top. Heads and vibrobots approach that, but many vibrobots don't react to stimulus. When you move up the food chain, you get to walkers, solar rollers and photophobes that it's harder to argue against as being robots, but they really don't do anything useful and are about parallel to remote controlled toys as far as that goes-and is my Roboquad really a robot (fromt the Czech word "Robota" for "laborer") in the same sense that my Roomba or a factory welding arm is?
Maybe this is more a topic for Hal's "Robot Musings" blog...
Even a simple vibrating
Even a simple vibrating motor attached to a solar cell could be a robot in my opinion. Stick it on a piece of sandpaper and let it sand the deck for you, or wax your car ;). Put a soft pad on it instead and put them on a mars rover's solar panels to keep them dust free. A pummer could be used with a thermistor to flash at night from the greenhouse, letting you know the temperature from your livingroom by the frequency of the pulses. A solar engine by its self might not be a 'robot' in your opinion, but if you take two and point their panels slightly left and right, they (although seperate circuits) are able to move the 'photopopper' towards light.
Just my 2 pence.
i don't know why, but when
i don't know why, but when you say "i will make a robot" to yer friend(who has no experience in robotics whatsoever), he would eventually think of this:
:) pt 4
hmm, wikipedias definition of a robot is: "A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control."
so rc robots are robots, and anything that can perform a task is a robot, but it didn't say that the task is making a labour, the task might be anything you want, like; spin a motor, walk, creep the hell out of you(sorry, uncanny valley) or simply charge it's motor by a solar panel and skitter on a floor (like symet).
I don't see any importance to this debate
Personally-whats the diff? Usefulness?-most robots here have no real true purpose(including my own,especially my own). Its a hobby, a past time, a fun thing to do. No sense getting all technical about it. Folks should build what they want, do what they want, and call it what they want.
Whether you build with sticks, paper, plastic or titanium........you want to call it a robot, or art, or an animatronic, or a gizmo.....then who is say no?- thats not a robot. Are you planning on labeling everyone who posts something, making a notation-say-that's not a robot! I hope not.
Even as just a "I wonder" question-Seems like its just a point of contention thats gets people in arguements.
I don't care if you call my projects "baked goods"........I know what I call them....
Now I am hungry-Is there cake?
Democratic site
I don't see any harm in discussing this as long as nobody finds a way to take offence. Some are happy with toys some are happy with tools, some like both. The important thing is the sharing that happens here and respect for eachothers opinions whatever that may be.
Seems like you took offense
Seems like you took offense to my comment!
And there is still no cake......
No offense taken
Well there must be a cake shop somewhere in your neighbourhood if you want it that bad.


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Readers' Choice: Jay International Food Co.
Because both of these markets -- Jay's and Global -- are owned by members of the same family, we're treating them as, well, identical cousins and bestowing the "best" mantle on them jointly. Whereas Global adores a minuet, smoked sturgeon Russe and crê pes Suzette, our Jay's store likes to rock & roll and its produce makes us lose control -- what a wild duet! City cousin Jay's has, appropriately, a touch more of an urban edge to it but also rewards you with the possibility of shopping at the many other ethnic stores and eating in the wide variety of restaurants that line the South Grand strip. Country cousin Global is a bit bigger and offers a wider selection of standard "American" supermarket fare, and you can always wander the quaint shops of old-fashioned downtown of Kirkwood if it suits your fancy. It seems like you can always find a way to expand your culinary horizons at either place, both of which have vast inventories of fresh, frozen, canned, baked, smoked, candied, deli and other ingredients that have traveled here from virtually every nook and cranny of the world.


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You've probably heard that "tummy time" is important so that babies can learn to push up and eventually crawl — but if your little one fusses and cries when you put him on his belly, what can you do?
If your baby's used to sleeping on his back, that's wonderful — sleeping on his back reduces your child's risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). But during waking hours, tummy time is essential from day one. Experts find that babies who don't spend time face-down often have some delays in their development of motor skills.
"The experience of being on their tummy helps babies learn to push up, roll over, sit up, crawl, and pull to a stand," explains Danette Glassy, a pediatrician in Mercer Island, Washington, and chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on early education and childcare.
Until 1992, when the AAP started urging parents to put babies to sleep on their back, most babies slept on their tummy and were used to being in that position. Today, most babies are much more comfy on their back, where they spend their sleeping hours (not to mention time spent in car seats, swings, and bouncy seats).
So if your baby seems miserable in that position, it's no wonder. Not only is it unfamiliar, it's physically uncomfortable. It's hard work for your baby to keep his head up when he's on his tummy, and he can't see much of anything down there. He may even feel abandoned.
Here are some strategies for helping your baby feel at home on his tummy, along with products that can help.
Keep your baby company
One mom-tested strategy is to distract your baby from the unfamiliar feeling of being face-down until he gets used to it.
The best thing you can do, says Glassy, is join your baby on the floor. Encourage him, talk with him, shake his rattle, make funny faces, play peekaboo. He might even enjoy watching you do your leg lifts or crunches (he's working hard after all).
Another option is to lay your baby tummy-down on your tummy, either on the floor, in a recliner, or even in the bath.
Once your baby has sufficient head control — around age 4 months — you can play airplane: Lie on the floor and bend your legs. Put your baby's tummy against your legs, his head at your knees. Then bend your legs while holding on to him firmly. He'll probably love the new view.
You might also put him on the bed, near the edge, and sit on the floor with your face next to his. He might appreciate the softer surface, and you can easily interact with him in this position.
Tip: Make sure your child's sitter or daycare provider knows about the importance of tummy time when your baby's awake as well as the importance placing your baby on his back to sleep.
Provide entertainment
Prop a board book open in front of your baby, or place a favorite toy within reach. Invest in a tummy-time toy or gym, designed especially for babies to play with while on their belly. Some have lights, mirrors, moving pictures, music and/or squeaky toys attached.
Or place him on a colorful quilt or an activity mat designed just for babies. Some mats have prop-up toys or mirrors, and others are filled with water, for added fun. Take your baby's socks off so he can get good traction on the mat.
Tip: Have your baby's sibling(s) play nearby when he's on his tummy. (You may want to use a play yard so he won't get stepped on.) Watching a brother or sister — or even a family pet — may just keep him happily distracted for a bit.
Prop your baby up
Some parents find that giving their baby a new perspective — by propping him on a rolled towel or nursing pillow, for example — makes all the difference.
If your child has some neck strength and head control (by age 3 or 4 months) but can't get up on his forearms, simply place the towel or pillow under his chest and armpits, with his arms in front of it. (If he tends to roll forward, keep your hand on his bottom.) When he can get up on his forearms independently, remove the pillow and let him work on his motor skills without it.
Tip: Some babies enjoy rolling on a big exercise ball. Hold him on it tummy-down while you gently rock the ball back and forth.
Time it right
Make sure your baby isn't hungry or tired when you set him tummy-down. On the other hand, don't place him on a full belly, which might be uncomfortable. (Wait about an hour after feeding to avoid spit-ups or infant acid reflux.)
When he starts to cry — even if it's only been a minute — try to coax him a bit longer by talking with him or playing with him. When he's had enough, pick him up and try again later.
His tolerance for tummy time is likely to increase gradually with experience and a bit of coaxing. And many babies are more content on their tummy once they can roll over and it becomes a matter of choice.
Tip: Some parents find it helpful to roll their babies over on their tummy for a little while after every diaper change. It's easy to remember to do it, and your baby may come to expect it. Your baby may also enjoy the view, if he's up on a changing table. Just be sure to hold on to him so he doesn't roll off.
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Try to figure out if there's anything in particular about tummy time that your baby finds distressing. Maybe his blankie gets too scrunched under him for comfort (and that shag carpet is downright scary). Maybe it's too cold on the floor, or too slippery.
One mom found that her baby liked tummy time as long as his fists were out from under him so he could suck on them. Another discovered that her baby was just fine on his tummy — as long as he was bare-butt!
Tip: See if your baby likes to be massaged while he's on his tummy. If he does, it could help him feel comfortable in that position.


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Two new projects for Isabel?
I was just browsing Isabel's official CV through Meissner Management, her management company, and discovered it is listing two new projects for her.
Tormenta is listed as being in production. Isabel would play Molly in the film to be directed by Uli Edel and produced by Essential Entertainment. I've done a quick search but cannot find any more information on this project. It's not listen on the director's IMDB page.
Careful What You Wish For is also listed as being in production, and to be produced by Michael Helfont and Robert Stein at Troika Pictures, and directed by Elizabeth Allen. Isabel's characters name is Lena. Isabel's involvement in this film was mentioned by Hollywood-Treatment.com last October, but I haven't read anything about it since. Various sites reported on the film's progress last year, and you can read them below, as well as a synopsis. IMDB is listing the film, and says that the film began production in April of this year.
Eighteen year old Doug gets more than he bargained for when he starts having an affair with Lena, the young wife of an investment banker renting the lake house next door for the summer. The husband's accidental death reveals a substantial life insurance policy. Everyone is suspect in this edgy and sexy thriller reminiscent of "Body Heat" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice".
– April 25th 2011
Troika is currently at work on previously announced thriller "Careful What You Wish For" with "Ramona and Beezus" helmer Elizabeth Allen attached to direct.
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Troika is currently filming thriller Careful What You Wish For with Elizabeth Allen attached to direct instead of music video king Jake Nava who has stepped down from the director's chair.
Careful What You Wish For is written by Movieball Media's Chris Frisina. Casting vet Pam Dixon has been brought on to find the ingenue at the center of the intrigue set against the summer at a lake in upstate New York.
– March 22nd 2010
Troika is casting contempo thriller "Careful What You Wish For," penned by Chris Frisina and directed by Jake Nava. "Careful" is due to start lensing in July.
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Hopefully we'll get confirmation on the status of these projects soon. It would be great to see more of Isabel on the big screen!