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Posted on 11/28/2010 4:54:49 PM PST by EveningStar
...In unbelievably difficult service in the Korean War, his unit was swamped, cut off, overwhelmed by hordes of Red Chinese crossing into Korea. In the worst cold weather imaginable, under fire, starving, acting Sergeant Charles Rangel, in a black unit led mostly by white officers, took a large group of men, led them by example, lifted their morale, as they fought their way out to safety. Men were being shot, freezing, getting captured all around him, yet he got most of his men out...
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Just what the hell happened to Rangel? How do you go from someone like THAT to a puke faced ranting corrupt leftist POS?
Cue "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen...
Yeah, when I was 10 I saved a nun from drowning. So I should get a pass for killing that hobo yesterday...
Ben Stein belongs in the Colin Powell, Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan pile. Just because they still say they're Republicans doesn't mean we have to claim them.
Ok, Ben - let's hear it for another hero: Duke Cunningham.
I never knew that. God bless Charlie for his service.
To me Charlie is an example of why we need term limits.
20 terms in Congress is about 16 too many IMHO.
30 years in Congress?
Legend has it Ted Kennedy tried to save Ms. Kopechne, too.
By this standard, Duke Cunningham should not be in jail.
Ben Stein may be a smart guy but he is showing a lack of common sense.
You abandon what you originally stood for.
I liked the fact that Rangel wanted to bring back the draft...when the country goes to war, it needs to send troops from ALL elements of society.
'Ben Stein may be a smart guy but he is showing a lack of common sense'
He does that from time to time, like supporting his Hollywood friend Al Franken for Senator in Minnesota.
He succumbed to the politically corrupt power of Washington........Term limits puts an end to that corruption.
The corrupting power of congress happened to him. He's a poster child for term limits. He runs unopposed for all intents and purposes, he brings the pork back to his district and they love him. The down side is his decisions in the Ways & Means committee affect the entire country, yet we can't vote him out.
I always love the people who say things like, "Well we have congressional term limits, they're called elections.". Sure that's true in theory but someone like a Rangel or Pelosi only has to appeal to a narrow leftist base. They can screw everyone else and there isn't a damned thing we can do. If anything congress needs term limits much more than the President (present occupant excepted)
How do we know a single word of his korean service is the truth? Other than documentation that he served, is there any documentation as to what he did while in the service?
What you did well over 55 years ago DOES NOT cover criminal acts today.
Shell shock maybe?
Yeah, and Benedict Arnold was the hero of Saratoga.
Yet he still died a disgraced wreck of a man in London, hated by both sides.
I appreciate his service...but he's still Boss Hogg with a tan.
Hitler was a courageous war hero also. You can be corrupt and evil and still have good qualities. Evil is spoiled goodness. Even street gang members can be courageous, loyal, devoted, and willing to sacrifice for their bros.
...and some people still adore OJ Simpson.
This story reminds me of a portion of the piece I wrote about John McCain. How few remember they are supposed to be citizen legislators.
"John McCain has succumbed to the terrible addiction of political power. The same addiction expressed itself differently in fellow Navy officer Randy Cunningham, who was the Navys first Vietnam ace. Over the decades the honor and moral authority of both were gradually traded away for influence in the political arena. There is a vast, immeasurable gulf separating John McCain from the genuine people who dealt with the issues sponsoring the Geneva Conventions and our Constitution. He much more equates with the parasites now feeding upon the prosperity and security so painfully forged for their benefit. We now suffer imposters like him with such extraordinary mental athletic prowess as to scale unheard of heights of arrogance and studied ignorance and achieve unparalleled duplicity.
To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing a corpse at the funeral. It is easy for anyone to get onto the same sort of gently downward sloping path. The final result is tragic, but we should not suffer such pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeths or Hamlets as Republicans in the Senate or any other public office. I am amazed that people can be so easily duped by such obvious illusions."
Same thing as Duke Cunningham...the seduction of power and money is just too much for some people.
Hitler won five medals including the prestigious Iron Cross during the First World War. His commanding officer wrote: "As a dispatch-runner, he has shown cold-blooded courage and exemplary boldness. Under conditions of great peril, when all the communication lines were cut, the untiring and fearless activity of Hitler made it possible for important messages to go through".
That, of course, excuses any thing he did thereafter.
John Dingell 54 years in Congress, John Conyers 44 years in Congress, David Obey 40 years in Congress. People who re-elect politicians for decade after decade are too lazy or stupid to throw them out.
Ben Stein is correct here. No one should forget for a moment that Charlie Rangel is a genuine war hero. He deserves the nation's thanks for that.
And no one should forget for a moment that Charlie Rangel is a corrupt politician.
One does not lessen or cancel out the other.
As it is in so many things in life, it is more important how you finish, than how you start.
Two words ... "John Glenn".
Charlie Rangel is still a turd to me
Benedict Arnold was a hero at one time, too.
Until, years later, when he threw that all away by preventing the Senate from holding Bill Clinton accountable for his crimes. From that moment onward, John Glenn was reduced to being just another corrupt, partisan political hack.
Sorry, Charlie, but you threw it all away too...
The draft is slavery.
Lets put those draftee's in the most high-tech jobs! From High School to piloting a F-18 in a few weeks!
Charlie has been rewarded for his heroism with 40 years of sucking off the Government tit, while amassing homes in the Dominican republic and New York City.
Being a hero does not entitle you to commit criminal acts , nor does it entitle you to not pay taxes.
Charlie could have been a contender. Instead he is just an ordinary run of the mill crooked politician.
"God bless Charlie for his service."
Yes, agreed. He should have taken the deal on this months ago. I honestly think he thinks he did nothing wrong. To him all this was just "honest mistakes". It's really a shame.
Now, as term limits requires an amendment to the constitution I propose ending any pensions for elected officials, at all levels, but why not start with congress? It will be a natural discouragement from decades of service and it will also save money. Of course, let them have a 401(k) or something, but no matching funds or anything. And no lifetime healthcare either, that will save a bundle.
I think congress critters should be limited to 3 consecutive terms, followed by 2 mandatory out-of-office. I think senators out to be selected by their state legislatures, like the constitution specified.
I think that supreme court justices should be able to be recalled by national ballot - perhaps with a required number of signatures to get on the ballot. (That's an incomplete thought - just something I thought up on the spur of the moment.)
I believe that Presidents ought to have to prove they are eligible, in accordance with the rules specified in the constitution.
I believe liberals should be subjected to electric shock therapy, and that liberal pols should receive high-voltage treatments.
I believe I'll have another beer. ;-P
I prefer Duke Cunningham's Congressional voting record to Rangel's, but excusing none of what Rangel did, his misconduct hardly compares to Cunningham's, who took millions of dollars in bribes and went to prison for it.
Here is a link of Republican Rep. Peter King defending Charlie Rangel:
He cavorts with Castro
He called a decent man, George W. Bush, 'our Bull Connors.'
He has belonged to Communist organizations.
He addressed leftist anti-American crowds at the time of the Iraqi invasion.
I could go on.
He has been my Congresman, since 1/71. As a white Republican, it is like I have NEVER had a Congressman!
There are simply MANY reasons I dislike him, even without these scandals.
He WAS a HERO; now he's a ZERO!
I feel your pain. John Lewis has been my congressman for 20 years. I've never had a congressman either.
Ben Stein makes a habit of forgiveness. Especially where service to this country is concerned. I'll not fault him for it. We could all use a little mercy now.
So he wasn't always a two big thief in a poorly cut suit?
I like him even less now.
It's a shame about Ben Stein—he actually knows better.
Big FD! Lee Harvey Oswald was once a marine.
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Now if you're joining me from the previous video, I made a big deal of the fact that you want the graphic to actually cover up your edit point to build a graphic transition. But with video transitions, you actually have a lot more control, as far as being able to decide exactly where the edit point is created. Now a lot of times when you're building your graphics, you'll create your edits with a rough cut edit, kind of like this. If we go ahead and scrub our playhead in the Timeline here, you can see it's just a jump cut from a wide shot to a close-up shot.
So what we want to do is just add a transition from one layer to the other layer, and using the transitions under Effects, it's pretty easy to do. So let's go ahead and select our FallsSunrise layer. Go up under Effects and go down to Transition. Down here the one I like to use most often is the Card Wipe, and I'll show you why in just a second. But let's go ahead and choose the Card Wipe, and as you can see, by default it already starts the transition. One of the reasons I love the Card Wipe is the fact that the video footage is actually stuck to each little cube.
It's not a matte that the video footage is keyed into. So when you starts flying the boxes around, the video sliding within each box. Now, this is really great. If we go ahead and click and drag on the Transition Completion, notice that the footage is indeed transforming exactly with each box. Let's look at the third option down here, the Back layer. Notice by default, the Back layer is layer number 2, which is the same layer that we applied the effect to. Well, that's kind of a problem, because if we go ahead and scroll through the transition I'm just going from the one shot I started with to the exact same shot, which is not at all what we're trying to do here.
So, let's move our Completion back here and choose the Back layer to be number 1 Falls Wide. So now when we drag our transition to completion, you notice it's transitioning from the first shot to the second shot. Now hold on a second here. As we move our playhead around, notice I'm looking at the second piece of footage before it ever technically begins in my composition. I just point this out because Card Wipe is ignoring the endpoint of this layer. So when you apply a Card Wipe transition, what you want to do is make sure you make note of where your edit point is supposed to be, and then go ahead and adjust your effect accordingly.
So let me show exactly what I mean. Let's drag the playhead to the edit point. Again, we'll hold Shift so it snaps. And we'll add a composition marker by clicking and dragging and again Shift, and let's just double-click on the marker to rename it Edit. We'll click OK. Now I know that that is the point of the composition where I want my edit to actually happen. Now if I go ahead and drag the endpoint of layer 1 forwards, now when I move through the Timeline, even if I go back and select my FallsSunrise under my Effects Control and adjust the transition, notice I'm not seeing anything, and that's because the transition was applied to layer 2.
So it gets a little confusing, but basically what I'm saying is drag whichever layer has the effect applied all the way to the top. And then the other layer, sure, you can have it in a wherever you want in the Timeline, and you can even turn it off, but as long as it selected in the transition, when you go ahead and complete your transition you will see that footage on the back of your transition. Notice I didn't delete it out of the Timeline, again, because I need it to be in the Timeline to reference within the effect itself.
If we drag our playhead now, notice, well even though layer 2 exists, I'm missing the transition. I like to turn this back on. Let's see what happens as we go ahead and drag. Well, I still have a jump, and that's because the effect is still applied to layer 1. So what we need to do is just extend layer 1 out in our Timeline, and in that way we can still control the transition through the Transition Completion. Again, I'm seeing the footage through here, because I turn the visibility of the wide shot back on so let's turn that off.
So now instead of the footage telling us where the transition is, we have our comp marker, and all we have to do is just time out our transition accordingly. So let's move our playhead forward in the Timeline so we can determine where we want our transition to start-- we can go ahead and move that back to 0-- and create our first keyframe, and then let's move our playhead to the other side of the edit and have the Transition Completion go all the way to 100%. Now, I know that I have my transition animated with the Card Wipe nicely applied and edited right here in my composition.
So as you can see, using the Card Wipe transition seems relatively easy, and it is; you just need to pay attention to exactly which layer is the highest in the layer hierarchy and then really control the edit point by making your comp marker and adjusting your transition accordingly.
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The models are reacting to an area of high pressure that's forecast to develop to the storm's north. By Monday night the storm could begin bending westward if it bumps into the high.
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A word from the TV show Sam & Cat. Used as an insult.
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Somebody who is rude and loves to hurt peoples feelings. Most people hate lumpatious people. People who are lumpatious are usually full of themselves and think that they are above everyone else.
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To be annoying, stupid, etc. Lumpatious is usually used as an insult to someone who thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread.
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Lumpatoius means annoying, mean, or rude.
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- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 dash Tabasco sauce
- 1 (16 ounce) can pinto beans
- 2 cups cheese
- shredded lettuce
- chopped tomato
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- 2 teaspoons baking powder
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- Cover and let simmer while making fry bread.
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- Beat eggs; add milk.
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- Fry in oil until brown.
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Many companies these days force people to take a urine test to check for drugs, usually as a condition for employment. Let's be honest, though. These tests are a violation of civil rights and don't even prove whether or not you're fit to work. It's not as though they give a sobriety test every day when you show up at work. Instead, they make you take a test to see what you do during your time off.
Since drug tests for employment are a violation of civil rights, you shouldn't feel bad about trying to cheat them. However, you should make sure that you can cheat them properly. It's no good trying to cheat the system if you're not good enough to do it without getting caught. So if you want to try using some synthetic urine to beat the drug test, there are some things you need to know.
Synthetic urine is exactly that; non-human urine. It may be chemically produced, or it may be from an animal, but the end result is the same. When you send the urine off to the testing lab, they don't find the drugs you've been doing.
You need to be careful, however. Make sure that you won't be supervised, otherwise it will be obvious you're not using your real urine. Also, make sure the urine is of high quality. There are plenty of cheap synthetic urines out on the market, but when you buy cheap, you get cheap. That is to say, you never know if cheap synthetic urine will actually help you beat the drug test. What's worse, the lab may be able to test for some types of synthetic urine. In that case, you're completely lost.
There are a few synthetic urine products that are standouts. Quick-Fix is the most well-known brand, but it's also had a few issues with being caught. In addition, it takes up to 45 minutes to heat up, which means it's not very useful when you have to take a test on the spot.
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International Summer School 10.-17.07.2011 at the University of Łódź 'Regionalisation in the Globalised World'
Organisers: University of Łódź
Justus Liebig University, Giessen (Giessen Centre for Eastern European Studies – GiZo, and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture – GCSC)
Venue: Łódź, Poland
Dates: 10 – 17.07.2011
Languages: German, English
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Doctoral candidates, from both Eastern and Western Europe, working on projects related to the topic of 'Regionalisation in the Globalised World.' The project should be focussed on Eastern Europe, or take into consideration Eastern Europe's relations with Western Europe.
Number of Participants: 30
The International Summer School 2011 in Łódź, focussing on 'Regionalisation in the Globalised World', will be jointly organised by the University of Łódź, Poland, and the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany (Giessen Centre for Eastern European Studies – GiZo, and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture – GCSC)
The Summer School is directed towards doctoral candidates from throughout Europe. In interdisciplinary working groups, it will seek to examine the concepts of 'regionalisation' and 'globalisation', as well as the related concepts of nationalisation, transnationalisation and glocalisation. The Summer School is particularly directed towards scholars in academic disciplines such as the study of culture, linguistics and literary studies, history, law, economics, sociology and political studies, and it aims to provide a forum for the discussion of various cultural contacts in the societies of Eastern Europe (from the viewpoint of the aforementioned disciplines), as well as for the discussion of relationships between Eastern and Western European. In many areas of the contemporary world one can detect a number of tensions between processes of regionalisation and processes of globalisation, and certain disciplines have come up with the word 'glocalisation' to describe this phenomenon.
• In linguistics and literary studies, for example, there is considerable interest in the increasing influence of English as a global lingua franca on the one hand, and in the standardisation of minority and regional languages (Kashubian, Ruthenian etc.) on the other, with ongoing discussions on the cultivation of regional literature, on regional, national, transnational and European developments in linguistic communities, and on linguistic development within the context of regionalisation, Europeanisation, and globalisation more generally. How can one characterise linguistic contacts in the area of tension which exists between regionalisation and globalisation? How do the authorities within linguistic communities act in relation to processes of globalisation and nationalisation? How puristic can linguistic communities be (one thinks here of certain language laws recently enacted within the region)? In this area of tension between regionalisation and nationalisation, the role of migration also requires further analysis, as does the question of the relationship between language and identity, both regional and national. In the field of literary studies, the formation of supra-regional and supra-national identities has led to the development of concepts such as 'Central European literature' or even 'European literature' (as opposed to 'Central European literatures' and 'European literatures'.) 'Holocaust literature', for example, has already become an overarching concept, even if there are certain key differences between the various national Holocaust literatures (German, Polish, Czech etc.). Finally, has this tension between regionalisation and globalisation led to certain developments in the area of central literary categories such as genre, poetic forms, themes and motives, and narrative strategies etc.?
• There has also been an explosion of historical debate over 'global history' and the close entanglement of national histories, as well as great discussion over when (the Early Modern Period, the nineteenth century?) and where (Western Europe, The North Atlantic, Eastern Europe?) globalisation can be said to have emerged. Established regional conceptions have also been subjected to re-examination. What role does 'Eastern Europe' have to play in globalisation, and do the old methods of discussing this region in terms of 'periphery' and 'semi-periphery' remain valid? Beyond the processes of globalisation emanating from the North Atlantic region since the fifteenth century, can one not also detect an intensive process of globalisation in the entanglements of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Ottoman World? Poland is also particularly deserving of investigation, in light of its dual role as 'Empire Builder' and 'Empire Breaker', and as a region which experienced a tremendous amount of migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Furthermore, how can one evaluate the role of industrial take-off regions in the Early Modern Period and in the nineteenth century? The history of the Łódź region itself, with its worldwide connections in the textile industry, provides for very interesting case studies here.
• In the social sciences (law, economics, sociology, political studies), the significance of language in economic transactions, and the role of English as a lingua franca in particular, are also major subjects of investigation. Moreover, in studies on economic and political integration, there is evidence of a tension between global integration on the one hand, which seeks to encompass as many countries as possible, and a more regional integration on the other, which is based on cultural similarities in the countries and regions involved and which is, for this reason, easier to embed. This tension is visible, for example, in the debates over a 'two-speed Europe'.
Under the conference heading of 'Regionalisation in the Globalised World', there are a whole range of potential topics of discussion relating to regional developments within Europe, and to the structural changes and adjustments brought about by the regional policy of the European Community (e.g. the EU Structural Funds and Cohesion Policy as a strategy for sustainable and socially-just development; the adjustments of European labour markets to the global economic crisis, and in particular the determinants and socio-political implications of the crisis for the development of different regions; unemployment as a socio-economic problem in Europe and the modern globalised world; the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to new and growing inequalities at the regional level in the EU; the struggle against social exclusion at this level; and inequalities in economic sustainability, labour laws, and personal welfare across the various regions of the EU). Doctoral students participating in the Summer School will present their projects in interdisciplinary workshops supervised by lecturers from Giessen and Łódź. Interdisciplinary projects are very much encouraged, but projects grounded in one particular academic discipline are also very welcome, provided they offer space for interdisciplinary discussion.
The Summer School programme will also include a number of plenary sessions and evening lectures, to be given by professors from both Giessen and Łódź. Furthermore, there will be an extensive cultural programme on offer, with opportunities for exploring the city of Łódź and the surrounding region.
Participants' contributions should be around 30 minutes long, and they will be expected to make use of presentation aids (with Power-Point presentations preferred). Abstracts should take up one side of A4 paper, and should be sent in doc-Format to the conference organiser (address below).
Applications, with an abstract and a CV, should be submitted by February 15th 2011, to firstname.lastname@example.com
The final selection of participants will take place at the end of March 2011. As a rule, the conference organisers will cover the costs of travel and accommodation, as well as a major part of the catering costs. Applications from Eastern Europe are particularly encouraged.
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The interdisciplinary Giessener Zentrum Östliches Europa (GiZo – Giessen Centre for Eastern European Studies) is the regional academic research and teaching centre for the study of Eastern Europe in Hesse, Germany. Working from a broad conception of 'Eastern Europe' which, alongside Central Europe, South Eastern Europe, and Eastern Europe, also encompasses Turkey and the Turkic-speaking regions of the former Soviet Union, GiZo aims to provide a forum for the analysis of Eastern Europe within the context of the continent at large, and seeks to pose new questions about the borders of Europe. See also: http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/zentren/gizo
The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) has been located within the framework of the Federal Initiative for Excellence since 2006. It provides a variety of support structures and programmes for particularly skilled doctoral candidates, to aid them in the conduct of academically outstanding dissertation projects in the field of the study of culture. See also: http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/wps/pgn/home/gcsc_eng/
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In 1995, the first year of its operation, the BLS Web site averaged 70,000 "hits", or document views, per month; in 2008, the monthly average for the entire BLS Internet site was 39 million hits.
The pattern of use varies throughout the year and has remained consistent for many years. The heaviest usage is generally in the fall and spring, corresponding with the academic year. Usage typically declines during the summer. In addition, spikes in usage often coincide with the release of new data, such as the release of employment projection data every other November.
To learn more, see "BLS at 125: using historic principles to track the 21st-century economy" (PDF), by William J. Wiatrowski, Monthly Labor Review, June 2009. Note that the Internet site usage statistics shown here pertain to the entire BLS Internet site (www.bls.gov, ftp.bls.gov, and data.bls.gov) for February 1998 forward and to just HTML pages for the earlier period.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, BLS Internet site usage over the years on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jun/wk5/art02.htm (visited September 28, 2016).
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so hopefully baby travelle will be discharged somewhere between thanksgiving and christmas. he just need to get off cpap, get direct billi rubin levels down, and grow 1 more pound. but saying all that where can i find winter clothes for him? i found some cute preemie clothes at walmart but they are all still to big for him. they start at 5lbs and right now he is only 3lbs 3oz. but by the time he is discharge he should be close to 5lbs. but i still can't find him some shoes, socks, snow suit, thick jackets, thick pants, ect. everywhere i go they don't have preemie clothes or winter preemie clothes. so where did you guys get it from? he won't be going out much but to the docs and granny house when i go back to school in january but i still want to keep him really warm.
where to get preemie winter clothes?
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Fleece sleepers work great. I would put a onesie underneath in the winter and then when he had to go out to the doctor, I'd tuck a warm blanket around his lap in the carseat and also have him wear a hat. We covered the carseat with a Babbaco cover (not while driving though) and it kept him very nice and warm. We live in South Dakota so we have very cold winters.
Boy #1 3/09 born at 30wks severe pre-e/HELLP 3lbs 2oz. Boy #2 5/11 born at 37wks pre-e, PTL 6lbs 4oz. Boy #3 5/13 born at 35wks pre-e 5lbs 11oz
Oh you shouldn't need a snowsuit and pants unless you plan on having him actually outside in the cold for long periods of time. Both are too thick to wear in a carseat.
Boy #1 3/09 born at 30wks severe pre-e/HELLP 3lbs 2oz. Boy #2 5/11 born at 37wks pre-e, PTL 6lbs 4oz. Boy #3 5/13 born at 35wks pre-e 5lbs 11oz
The Walmart brand of Carter's preemie sleepers come in fleece ones (on hangers on rack) and work pretty well.
Gerber clothes run SMALL, so a NB Gerber sleep-n-play and onesies are smaller than most NB.
Gymboree (I only know this because it was a gift!) has a line of "real clothes" that is "up to 7lb". They were big on dd when we first brought her home at 3lb 15oz but they were the only "real clothes" that fit her for a couple months. We were rolling sleeves at first, but I see they expect your guy to be a pound heavier.
DD was 17" at discharge I believe and I didn't know how fast she'd grown (seeing as she'd doubled her birthweight in 8 weeks and grown 3"), so I didn't buy any preemie outfits myself--just used what was given, and bought NB.
And yeah--forget the winter coats and such. Too much bulk in the carseat. I would dress dd in a normal outfit (usually a onesie and sleep-n-play, or onesie, top, pants) then lay a lightweight blanket (flannel or thermal) over her. The car was always preheated for her, the carseat always warm from being in the house. I would use a "shower cap style" warm car seat cover over her and usually unzip it in the car so she didn't overheat. Great at keeping people away too. With my oldest, I ddin't have that type cover and just put a big thick blanket over the carseat when carrying it to/from the car.
Those lightweight NB Gerber hats are great. Dd had a BIG head for her size though, and I found Old Navy had some similar ones in bigger sizes. BRU has preemie sized ones--didn't last long at all for us though.
Socks are enough, hard to find small ones--the kind I had that worked best I don't think they still sell. Don't bother with shoes--don't need them and they won't fit. Ds #2, my termie, had COLD feet all the time, so I just put a thinner sock on and a thicker boot. I didn't find even so much as a 0-6week crib shoe to fit dd until she was 5mo, and size 0 shoes (hard to find, Sears had them) at 8mo. But I don't think that is normal--at 2yo she is still in a size 5!
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thanks. i did buy him some fleece carter sleepers i found at walmart. they were to cute to past up. and they had some fleece jackets so about him a couple of those to.
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You really only need sleepers, onseys and outfits. You never put thick clothing on a child then put in to a carseat. The Puffy depresses durring an accident and the child moves under the straps. Plus they can overheat.
I used a "showercap" style cover when he was 8 mos. When he was smaller (and I feared his head wasn't up high enough), I just used blankets over his carseat straps.
I STRONGLY recommend HALO Sleep Sack Swaddle for sleeping. Fleece w/a cotton sleeper is likely enough.
I loved the carters outfits (newborn) that you could button as pants or as a sleep sack. He wore those most days for 24 hrs or untill he spit up!
I would do socks - no shoes (they don't stay on) - I didn't use them untill my LO was crawling.
FYI at 5lb my LO didnt' fit in preemie - they were too short! So we did newborn & rolled sleeves.
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The best way to keep him warm is continuing to kangaroo or hold him as much as possible.
Rather than trying to find a coat/snowsuit for him, I highly recommend getting a babywearing jacket, coat, or poncho for yourself (and a sling or wrap, if you don't have one yet). That way, he can benefit from your body heat rather than generating all his own heat. Plus, extra baby snuggles for you. Win-win!
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My preemie didn't have more than 1-2 "outfits". Didn't make sense. The outfits weren't nearly as warm. I stuck to onesies and footed sleepers and blankets. Don't bother with shoes (waste of money, IMO) and don't spend too much on socks.
My favorite brand for preemie clothes was Carters. Heck, Carters is still one of my favorite brands!
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Fleming's Hotel Frankfurt-Hamburger Allee places you within a 10-minute stroll of popular attractions such as Senckenberg Museum and Messeturm. This 45-room, 4.5-star hotel welcomes guests with a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and a fitness center. Frankfurt Trade Fair and Palmengarten are also near this Frankfurt hotel.
This hotel is home to a restaurant and a bar/lounge. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service. Start your day off with breakfast, available for a fee.
All 45 air-conditioned rooms provide laptop-compatible safes and desks. Guests can expect free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels and pay movies. Free toiletries are also standard.
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Fleming's Hotel Frankfurt-Hamburger Allee features a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and a business center. Self parking is available for EUR 15.00 per day. Front-desk staff can answer questions 24/7, and assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. This luxury hotel also has free newspapers.
- Walking distance to Senckenberg Museum and Messeturm
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A business center is on site at this 4.5-star property.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This luxury hotel also offers a fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and concierge services. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Fleming's Hotel Frankfurt-Hamburger Allee is a smoke-free property.
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- Total number of rooms - 45
- Bar/lounge
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- Business center
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Onsite venue - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine. Open daily.
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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Many business managers keep track of their company's performance using worksheets called dashboards, which presents summary information on a single worksheet. In this movie, I'll show you three types of conditional formatting: data bars, color sales, and icon sets, that you can use to format your data to help you see how your company is performing. The first of these three conditional formats is called data bars, and what they show is the relative magnitude of values using a horizontal bar within a cell that contains the value. So, for example, in these cells here, B4:B15, I'll select them, and then I'll apply a data bars conditional format.
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The Sak 'N Save on U.S. Highway 50 E., formerly Scolari's, will close on May 30, the Sparks-based company has confirmed.
About 40 employees work at the longtime Carson City grocery store and "a number" may be offered positions at nearby stores in the region, said Ward Dunn, the vice president of marketing for Scolari's Food and Drug Company, which owns Sak 'N Save.
"Based on a number of factors, it didn't make sense to continue operations at that location, and we'll do our best to keep as many associates as possible," said Joe Scolari, CEO of the grocery store chain.
After about 35 years in business, the store re-branded into a Sak 'N Save in October 2008 in an attempt to cope with the weakening local economy, Dunn said. Sak 'N Saves generally have fewer options and lower prices than Scolari's.
"It's a sad thing that we have to do," Dunn said. "We also know that it's a healthier situation for the rest of our chain."
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The 40,000-square-foot retail space may get some modernization as a result of the vacancy, said Kathy Hone of the Hone Company, a Minden-based real estate company that owns the shopping center.
"We're looking at this as an opportunity," said Hone, who learned about the closure Friday. "We're very sorry to see Sak 'N Save go, they've been there many years. They're a good member of the community."
Terry Potter, a retiree living in Carson City, said he was disappointed to hear the news on Monday while loading groceries into the bed of his pickup truck after shopping at the Sak 'N Save.
"When they closed Lucky over here and moved Longs and moved all of that stuff I started shopping over here," Potter said. "Prices are extremely competitive to anyplace else that I've shopped except WinCo, but I don't go to Reno all that often."
Carol Tickey said she had yet to get her business license for her new barber shop next door to the Sak 'N Save when she heard the news.
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Tickey's first day of business was Tuesday.
"That's just my luck," she said, chuckling. "Doggone it."
Pam Anderson, owner of Straw Hat Pizza, opened for business in the same shopping center as Sak 'N Save last week. Her business used to be located in south Carson City.
"I feel bad for the community behind us, especially a lot of the elderly in the back because they're utilizing this store all the time," Anderson said. "They're walking, using their scooters."
Other business owners in the shopping center had mixed opinions about the effect the closure would have on their bottom lines.
Leslie Guagliardo, owner of the Cigarettes for Less next door to Sak 'N Save, said she's been surveying her customers about whether they directly come to her shop or if they stop by for convenience after grocery shopping.
"I'm finding that a good percentage, 80 percent to 90 percent, actually come to this store because they want to come to this store," Guagliardo said. "I'm sad to see them close because I'm going to lose part of the business, I don't know if they have plans to have another company come in there. I'm hoping something's in the process."
Mike Lavin, who has run Carson's Oak Outlet in the same shopping center as the grocery store since 1991, said he couldn't believe the news, adding he didn't think his business would be affected by Sak 'N Save shuttering.
"I'm a destination store," he said. "They're coming to me ... because they want furniture. So I don't expect to have much effect on me at all."
Adrian Martinez, owner of Taqueria La Salsa, said business went up when the grocery store re-branded in 2008. But now, he said he has his doubts.
"I really think this is going to hurt," Martinez said.