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great. i hope you can help
Have you tried unplugging the micro for about five minutes then plugging it back in?
no, not yet. its attached under a counter. is it easy to pull out? We just moved into our house that we bought a week ago.
i can try
the microwave is under a counter?
yes. it has the drawer that comes out horizonitally
Is there a cabinet or outlet above it? or even around it? I would assume there is since it needs to be plugged in to work. just find the plug and unplug it
The microwave has drawer or the cabinet?
looking for it now
I would check the cabinets around the microwave. there has to be a plug there somewhere.
ok. just let me know. i'll be here. just unplug the microwave, and you will know you have the right one when the lights go out on the microwave, then keep it unplugged for about 5 minutes then plug it back in.
i can't get behind the microwave unless i unscrew it from the cabinet. any other options?
If it still gives you the error and doesnt heat then you have a bad control board and even a bad magnetron. And for an undercounter or countertop model like yours it will not be worth the cost of repair. Unfortunately.
Do you know where you circuit breakers are for the house?
I would try the circuits and hopefully they are labeled.
just find the circuit breaker for the microwave and flip that off for about five minutes. that will do the same thing.
not sure where the ones are for the house...and i have an 8mth old sleeping. looks like its not myday
the unplugging of the machine for five minutes will reset the machine and computer.
oh. Sorry.
If you cant find the circuit or get behind it to unplug the unit then there is not much else you can do here.
got it
thanks anyway
we need to reset the computer and the only way to do that is to kill power to the machine.
what does it say now in the display?
just showing the time
you can try clearing the current cycle and setting by hitting the clear or cancel button for about five seconds. then set a new timed heat cycle for about 30 seconds and put a cup of water in and hit start.
i'll try that now
if it doesnt heat then like i said you will need to reset the computer first.
ok. thanks. try it and let me know what happens.
and again, if that deosnt work for you, you need to find the circuit panel and the circuit for the microwave and flip it to the off position. and keep it off for about five minutes then put it back on.
Then on the microwave it will ask to set the time. just follow the instructions that will be displayed on the board and set the time. then put a glass of water in again and set the micro to 30 second time heat and start it.
i'll need to tdo that tomorrow. thanks for your help. thank god i have a home warranty to pull this thing out if it doesnt work
if it doesnt heat and does the same thing then you need a new board and magnetron. the magnetron is what heats the machine. and on a machine like this it is cheaper to get another one then replace the parts.
thank god. warranty is good.
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More often than not, the pioneer women in Congress gained experience in public affairs as political confidantes and campaign surrogates for the Congressmen to whom they were married or otherwise related. Ironically, it was personal tragedy rather than a shared interest in reform that provided political entrée for most early women in Congress. Beginning with Representative Mae Nolan in 1923, eight of the women who followed Rankin into Congress between 1917 and 1934 were widows who succeeded their late husbands. None had held political office. Several, however, were among their husbands' most trusted political advisors, particularly Edith Nourse Rogers and Florence Prag Kahn.
While most widows left Capitol Hill after filling out a brief, unexpired term, some, like Rogers, whose 35 years in the House make her the longest-serving congressional woman, enjoyed public careers that far eclipsed those of their male predecessors. Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas, too, rejected the convention that widows were mere placeholders. As the second woman appointed to the Senate and later elected to fill out the remaining 10 months of her husband's term, Caraway shocked the Arkansas political establishment in May 1932 when she announced her candidacy for a full term. "The time has passed when a woman should be placed in a position and kept there only while someone else is being groomed for the job," she told reporters en route to an election victory and a 12-year Senate career.17
Another dimension to this phenomenon, may be described more properly as the familial connection. Four women from this era drew upon the experience of fathers who were established politicians (Winnifred Huck, Ruth Bryan Owen, McCormick, and McCarthy). Huck directly succeeded her late father with no experience in elective politics. In still another twist on the familial connection, Katherine Langley won a special election to succeed her husband, Kentucky Representative John Wesley Langley, after he was convicted and sent to prison for violating Prohibition. All told, 14 of these 20 pioneers drew upon precongressional experience as the wives or daughters of officeholders.
15The importance of the widow's mandate is discussed in the introduction to this book. For a full treatment of this phenomenon, see Irwin N. Gertzog, Congressional Women: Their Recruitment, Integration, and Behavior (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995): 17–36.
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im looking for prismas,copics,touchtwins any nice markers for black books. i got jack shit to trade , so i got money, paypal preffered. if anyone can rack like a 48 pack or a bigger pack of prismasa let me no ill buy themmm!
yeah man the cost hella lot a set of 12 prismas cost 2o dollars so yeah just rack em your self or get one of your stupid ass friends(we all get them dumb ones and you no it)to steall em for you
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He can build a solid motor for $1500 & reach his HP goal.I totally agree about the pistons.I wouldn't go with used.Too much risk.I would get theheads, block,rods,& crank took care of & then go from there.A brand new set of the Summit hyper flat tops are just over $100,or,like bygddy said,go with 1 of their rebuild kits.
The 186 heads will do pretty good.Really good with some porting.I do think you'll have to go over .450 lift to get the flow for 350 HP on them stock tho.
What intake did you say you had? What headers?
A kit like this (part number will change depending on bearings)
I wouldn't zero deck the block if it could be avoided, just a light cleanup
Your squish won't be ideal at .060 (using the supplied head gasket in the kit) but at just a shade over
9.5:1 comp this should be a big issue if you keep an eye on fuel and timing.
A simple cheap cam from summit such as this
A set of summit racing stamped steel rockers for $50 bucks...
If the intake isn't a performer RPM, sell it , then go buy one....
This will make a nice torquey street motor that should hit your power goals in budget....
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What's the different between the flat top piston and the circular piston. The ones I have is just round and plain. I do have a performer dual plane intake. With my heads and block deck. It's gonna cost me 300 for both. So I need to buy new pistons huh. What kind?
Sorry I see what kind of pistons. I also have my crank at the machine too. With all this what kind of size cam and what brand I need and what size carb. Will a 750 carb be too much. Can I put roller rocker in my block too.
What's the different between the flat top piston and the circular piston. The ones I have is just round and plain. I do have a performer dual plane intake. With my heads and block deck. It's gonna cost me 300 for both. So I need to buy new pistons huh. What kind?
The OEM circular dish will resemble a shallow bowl on top.It will have approx a half inch wide raised band around the outside circumference of the piston top.Flat tops will either be completely flat across the top ,or,have 2 or 4 valve reliefs.(half moon indentions).The circular dish doesn't provide a good squish for a complete & efficient burn.The flat tops can raise CR a little too hi w/ 64 cc heads.A good compromise between the 2 is a D cup piston like a KB-193.It has a flat section to provide proper squish,& a dished section to lower CR.If you have flat tops w/ no valve reliefs,your CR is most likely gonna be too high for iron heads & pump gas.Cam selectio can help get it to a point that it'll work.
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The performer is fine for a goal of 350hp and you are not winding past 5500rpm.
I have found that the performer is the manifold of choice with a build at or under 350" , 9:1 or less compression, cam .420-450 lift, and 3 series gear or less.
The RPM worked awesome with 9.5:1 comp and higher, small blocks at or larger than 350" ,high 3 or 4 series ring gear, etc.
I would not go sell it for the RPM just yet. It might work out.
Pistons, yeah. Again at 350 hp stock are adequate.
The stock have a slight dish like 6cc, it means the compression will be slightly less with the dish. The true flat have no combustion chamber space.
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If your intake is in fact just a Performer then sell it, pick up a new or even used Performer RPM, the difference is significant.
Yes, you can use roller rockers but why bother? Your not going to be turning the motor real hard and your on a real tight budget.
Cam choice, well again, there's many factors here, usage, converter, gear, among more.
But the heads aernt going to flow enough to use anything with a bunch of lift anyways.
An 80's G-Body is likely a 700R4 or 200 4R trans, and 342 or 373 rear ends are fairly plentifull.
A simple 268 cam will get the job done on a stock converter , its going to have a fairly high DCR which Joker touched on earlier but having built virtually the same motor a few times now I know it works well on premium pump and carefully timing.
Carb, a 650/750 will work great, either or, I like mechanical secondaries but a vacuum secondary 750 would likely be ideal.
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The summit/kb flat tops are a 4 valve relief true flat top and they come out at 6cc's.
I agree with the performer intake being sufficient for 350hp on a motor with decent heads. I used one on my Vette with heavily ported 416 heads and a Qjet and it was enough to put it into low 13's....but I suspect the heads flowed better then stone stock humps. So I reccomended the performer rpm based on the "every little bit helps" theory lol.
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Since I have mostly everything. Can I get close to 350 hp out of my block. I have a dual plane intake,750 carb, header and going with 3 inch exhaust,3.73 gears in the rear end,268 cam, .030 bored over with dish pistons,stock crank. Is this close to 300+ hp or not.
I believe you will have 300 plus hp,yes
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For what it's worth, I have consistently seen a 30-40 horsepower gain using an RPM over a standard Performer. Chevrolet originally used the high-rise design on a 302 cubic inch motor (Z-28), so they will work on most anything in my opinion. Some fellows get their shorts all knotted up at the operating range, 1500 to 6500, saying that they need power from idle. When is the last time you needed full power at 1400 rpm's????? With any kind of torque, even a stock converter will stall to 1500. Get real!
I've said it before and I'll continue to say it......The Edelbrock RPM intake manifold (or 300-36 Holley or 8016 Weiand) will make more power from 1500 to 6000 (single plane begins making more power at just over 6000) than any other intake manifold, including all other dual-plane and all other single-plane models. It is the END-ALL for naturally-aspirated street-driver motors using a single 4-bbl carburetor and operating between idle and 6000 rpm's.
The Holley and Weiand models have been discontinued, but may be found used on Racing Junk, craigslist, ebay, etc.
Here's a new Holley on ebay for a buck, fifty.....
And here's a new Weiand for a buck, fifty. This is the original Stealth intake for a SBC.....
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Wait , end all... Inspector you are wrong. If you build you vehicles to perform correctly on the road, you might want to take the pepsi challenge.
You have placed a RPM intake on a running bone yard stock 350v8 car, correct? No aftermarket cam or gear or stall. If you did this in a full size stock RWD, you would have found out you lost the ability to peel the tires. It becomes a dead player.
This something you find out pretty early, as intake swaps are one of the first common mods. To make it work for general situations you need to build the whole package.
I have had the experience of building a 350 with the 4 edelbrock packages(performer, torquer, rpm, victor) in the same chassis. Driving them in traffic/highway, etc.
I think there is a lot of confusion cause people are building cars that race on the street, and there is the problem. You get a poor road car, and a poor race car.
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If you are saying, a 350 built for the RPM intake is the end all. I totally agree.
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Much of the strategy and management advice that business leaders turn to is unreliable or impractical. That's because those who would guide us underestimate the power of chance.
Gurus draw pointed lessons from companies whose outstanding results may be nothing more than random fluctuations.
Almost no one provides scientifically credible answers to every business leader's basic questions about superior performance: Which companies are worth studying? What sets them apart? How can we follow their examples?
Frustrated by the lack of rigorous research, we undertook a statistical study of thousands of companies, and eventually identified several hundred among them that have done well enough for a long enough period of time to qualify as truly exceptional.
Then we discovered something startling: The many choices that made certain companies great were consistent with just three seemingly elementary rules.
1. Better before cheaper – compete on differentiators other than price.
2. Revenue before cost – prioritise increasing revenue over reducing costs.
3. There are no other rules – change anything you must to follow rules 1 and 2.
The rules don't dictate specific behaviours nor are they general strategies. They're foundation concepts on which companies have built greatness over many years.
Beyond truisms
The impetus for our research was the increasing popularity over the past 30 years of "success study" business books and articles. Perhaps the most famous of these are Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman's In Search of Excellence (1982) and Jim Collins' Good to Great (2001) but there are many others.
The problem with them is they don't give us any way to judge whether the companies they hold up as examples are indeed exceptional.
Randomness can crown an average company king for a year, two years, even a decade, before performance reverts to the mean. If we can't be sure that the performance of companies mentioned in success studies was caused by more than just luck, we can't know whether to imitate their behaviour.
We tackled the randomness problem head-on.
Finding what we assumed would be weak signals in noisy environments required a lot of data, so we began with the largest database we could find – the more than 25,000 companies that have traded on US exchanges at any time from 1966 to 2010. We measured performance using return on assets, a metric that reflects strong, stable performance.
We defined two categories of superior results: "Miracle Workers" fell in the top 10 percent of ROA for all 25,000 companies often enough that their performance was highly unlikely to have been a fluke; "Long Runners" fell in the top 20 to 40 percent and, again, did so consistently enough that luck was highly unlikely to have been the reason.
We call the companies in both these categories exceptional performers. For comparison purposes, we also identified companies that were "Average Joes."
A total of 174 companies qualified as Miracle Workers, and 170 qualified as Long Runners.
To understand what was behind superior performance, we identified trios in each of nine industries; each trio consisted of one company from each of our performance categories.
We searched for behavioural differences that might explain the specific performance differences we had discerned. Where the data permitted, we built financial models to estimate the impact of these behavioural differences on performance.
Then things got messy. We repeatedly tried and failed to isolate measurable behaviours that were consistently relevant. Was customer focus the key? Nope. Innovation? Risk-taking? Nope and nope. All these factors were associated with great, good or average performance in pretty much equal measure.
A useful explanatory frame began to emerge only after we shifted our emphasis away from what these companies did to hypotheses about how they thought.
That allowed us to see past what the exceptional companies were doing, which was endlessly variable, to how they apparently decided what to do, which proved highly consistent. The only factor that seemed to matter was their adherence to our rules.
RULE NO. 1: Better before cheaper
Every company faces a choice: it can compete mainly by offering superior non-price benefits such as a great brand or excellent functionality or it can meet some minimal acceptable standard along these dimensions and try to attract customers with lower prices. Miracle Workers overwhelmingly adopt the former position. Average Joes typically compete on price. Long Runners show no clear tendency one way or the other.
We don't mean to suggest that a company can afford to ignore its relative price position any more than one that competes through low prices can afford to ignore product quality.
We mean only that, in most cases, outstanding performance is caused by greater value and not by lower price. Companies seeking sustained, exceptional profitability should pursue strategies that are consistent with this rule and avoid those that aren't.
RULE NO. 2: Revenue before cost
Companies must not only create value but also capture it in the form of profits. By an overwhelming margin, exceptional companies garner superior profits by achieving higher revenue than their rivals, through either higher prices or greater volume. Very rarely is cost leadership a driver of superior profitability.
For eight of the nine Miracle Workers in our sample, revenue was the main driver of performance. Six of these eight relied mainly on higher prices to achieve their revenue levels; the other two relied largely or entirely on volume.
RULE NO. 3: There are no other rules
This rule underscores the uncomfortable (or liberating) truth that in the pursuit of exceptional profitability, everything but the first two rules should be on the table.
When considering all the other determinants of company performance – operational excellence, talent development, leadership style – we saw wide variation among companies of all performance types. There's no doubt that these and other factors matter to corporate performance, but we couldn't find consistent patterns of how they mattered.
More telling still, we found individual companies that had remained exceptional despite changing their approaches to a number of critical determinants of performance. The reason? The changes they made kept them aligned with the first two rules.
The absence of other rules doesn't give you permission to shut down your thinking. You are still responsible for searching actively for ways to follow the rules in the face of what may be wrenching competitive change.
Companies don't become truly great by reducing costs or assets; they earn their way to greatness.
Exceptional companies often, even typically, accept higher costs as the price of excellence. These organisations put significant resources, over long periods of time, into creating non-price value and generating higher revenue. When successful companies are led astray by the seeming certainties of short-run cost cutting or disinvestment, they are more likely to destroy what they most want to enhance.
The perils and promise of a non-price position
Our retail grocery trio was intriguing – first because the Miracle Worker of the bunch,
During its more than 20 years as a public company, its ROA has sometimes been worse than the majority of companies'.
Whole Foods may very well be on route to becoming a Long Runner or a Miracle Worker but it might just as easily get submerged in a wave of competition.
Its high costs – sourcing specialty items is expensive, and the company provides high levels of customer service ("Excuse me, how do I cook quinoa?") – have kept competitors at bay but with supply-chain costs falling, mainstream grocers are already starting to mimic its competitive position (you can get quinoa just about everywhere these days).
This example highlights an important limitation of our work: Following our rules doesn't guarantee Miracle Worker status. Sometimes a non-price position isn't worth the resources a company must devote to maintaining it. The rules can only tell you which hard problem you should try to solve. They can't tell you how to solve it.
Many paths to improvement
Don't be misled by the simplicity of the rules. Long-term success in any industry is a rare and difficult achievement, and finding a workable strategy that stays within the rules requires enormous creativity and flexibility.
Past executives have told us that the primary driver of Merck's superior performance was its research excellence, which yielded higher-value therapies.
It's true that Merck was early among pharmaceutical companies to shift the focus of its research from chemistry-based screening – isolating new compounds and testing them in vivo to assess the effects – to biology-based "rational discovery".
But Eli Lilly had great research too. And in any case, higher prices weren't the main reason for Merck's higher profitability: Barely a third of its ROA advantage can be attributed to superior gross margins.
We found that Merck's profitability rested on better asset utilisation, which was a function of revenue growth through higher unit volumes. For example, Merck's command of the mechanisms of action for compounds allowed scientists to develop variations on established drugs in order to attenuate side-effects or mitigate interactions with other drugs, making a compound's basic therapeutic effects available to a larger population of patients.
As a result, Merck was introducing three times as many products across twice as many therapeutic areas yet enjoying economies of scope in discovery and manufacture that stemmed from similarities among core compounds.
The company was also a leader in international expansion, which further increased unit volumes and asset utilisation.
Both its global expansion and its greater product diversification were driven by demand, born of the value of Merck's unique medicines. By 2010 its pharmaceutical business was more than twice the size of Eli Lilly's – up from about 8 per cent larger in 1985.
Merck's story shows that there are various routes to better before cheaper and revenue before cost, and they should all be under consideration all the time.
Finding the signal in the noise
In our quest to identify top-performing companies and figure out why they were among the best, we spent almost two years developing and working through appropriate statistical methods and another three years identifying the behaviours common to the best.
We started by digging through Compustat's database of more than 25,000 companies publicly traded in US markets from 1966 to 2010.
With the help of Andrew D. Henderson, of the University of Texas, Austin, we used quantile regression – which allowed us to strip out extraneous factors such as survivor bias, company size and financial leverage – to rank companies according to their relative performance on return on assets (income divided by the book value of assets), a metric that reliably reflects managerial efforts rather than simply changes in investor expectations, which are the primary driver of shareholder returns.
Then we used advanced simulation techniques to determine which companies had achieved high performance long enough that the chance their results were due to luck was less than 10 percent.
The qualifying length of time depended on life span: For example, to be a Miracle Worker, a company with 10 years of data had to have been in the top 10 percent for all of them but a firm with 45 years of data needed just 16 years in the top 10 percent.
To figure out what made these companies special, we selected a Miracle Worker, a Long Runner and an Average Joe in each of nine industries then made pairwise comparisons among the three.
In each comparison, we figured out how much of the ROA difference arose from each of the components of ROA – return on sales and total asset turnover, aka asset utilisation. Then we figured out how much of the ROS difference was due to differences in gross margins and a number of expense categories, which included research and development, selling, general and administrative, and several others (depreciation, extraordinary items and so on).
Similarly, we figured out how much of the TAT difference was due to current asset turnover and fixed asset turnover. We sought behaviour that could plausibly explain exceptional companies' performance advantages and, where possible, we assessed the impact of those behaviours by creating financial models.
Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Services LP, and Mumtaz Ahmed is a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and the chief strategy officer for Deloitte LLP. They are the authors of The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, forthcoming from Portfolio.


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Kentucky Faces UT Arlington as Keightley Classic Continues
Time Warner Cable to Show the UK- UT Arlington Basketball Game
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Time Warner Cable has announced that it will televise the CSS broadcast of Tuesday's Kentucky-UT Arlington men's basketball game.
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Kentucky vs. UT Arlington
Tuesday, Nov. 19 - 7:30 p.m. ET
Lexington, Ky.
Game Notes: UK | UTA
Radio: UK IMG
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Scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. ET tip, the game can be seen on the former Insight cable in Louisville, Lexington, Covington, Bowling Green, Ky., and Evansville Ind.
Customers with a digital set-top-box and subscription to Basic/Classic service can access the game on channel 505. Customers with QAM tuner TVs (rescan may be required) can access the game on the following channels: Bowling Green 12.3; Evansville 16.3; Covington 17.3; Louisville 77.3; Lexington 16.3.
Scouting the Mavericks
UT Arlington enters the matchup with the Wildcats owning a 2-2 overall record. The Mavericks own victories over Samford and Howard Payne, with losses coming to Boise State and Cleveland State.
Senior guard Reger Dowell leads four players in double-figure scoring with 26.0 points per game. He dropped a season-high of 35 against Howard Payne as the Mavericks scored 111 points in that game. Senior forward Brandon Edwards is currently averaging a double-double with 17.5 points and 11.3 boards per outing. Juniors Lonnie McLanahan and Vicent Dillard are scoring at a rate of 14.3 and 10.5 points per game, respectively.
Head Coach Scott Cross
Scott Cross has presided over the most successful era in Maverick Basketball since taking over the program in in 2006. Cross has compiled a record of 124-98 over seven-plus seasons. Of the top five seasons in UT Arlington history, Cross has coached three of those teams, including the top two.
The Mavericks have gone to the postseason three times under his watch, including back-to-back trips in 2011-12 and 2012-13. That marked the first consecutive postseasons in program history. Over that two-year span, only two programs of Texas' 21 Division I programs own more wins than the Mavericks' 43.
UT Arlington had only one postseason trip in the 46 years prior to Cross' arrival. He's the only men's basketball coach in school history with a winning record.
During his first seven seasons, Cross guided the Mavericks to a postseason tournament appearances in NCAA (2008), NIT (2012) and CIT (2013). UT Arlington won a SLC Tournament Championship in 2008, and won the 2011-12 regular season Southland Conference Championship. The Mavericks reached the championship game of the WAC Tournament in 2013.
Coach Cross was named 2012 Southland Conference Coach of the Year, 2012 NABC District 23 Coach of the Year and a 2012 Finalist for the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year.
Calipari vs. UT Arlington
UK coach John Calipari has tangled with the Mavericks once in his career during NCAA Tournament play in 2008.
UT Arlington, making its NCAA tournament debut, actually led the top-seeded Tigers in the opening minutes. Chris Douglas-Roberts' layup sparked a 15-2 run that effectively ended any hopes the Mavericks had for a momentous upset, and Memphis cruised to an 87-63 victory in the first round of the South Regional.
Douglas-Roberts led five Tigers in double figures with 23 points, and he also had seven rebounds, four assists and a steal. Derrick Rose and Antonio Anderson added 17 points each for Memphis, which improved to 34-1 with its eighth straight victory.
Kentucky vs. the Sun Belt
The Wildcats own an all-time record of 9-3 against members of the Sun Belt Conference. UK has faced Western Kentucky more than any other team in the league, and the Blue and White owns a 4-2 mark against the Hilltoppers.


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June 28, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Sophomore Ali Arastu (Northville, Mich./Northville) of the University of Michigan men's track and field team was chosen to represent Team USA in the 400-meter hurdles at the North American, Central America and Caribbean (NACAC) U-23 Championships, which will run from July 6-8 in Guanajuato, Mexico. He was one of two 400-meter hurdlers selected to the team.
"I'm really excited to experience competing in my first world meet," said Arastu. "Racing against these top guys and being on the same team as them will really have a big impact on new and higher goals for me in the upcoming season."
He will be coached by Kip Janvrin, who recently completed his 21st season on the Central Missouri track and field staff and 13th year as co-head coach. Janvrin works primarily with sprinters, hurdlers, and multi-event athletes. Assistant coach Clim Moore, who owns the 24Seven Track Club in Los Angeles, Calif., also specializes in sprints and hurdles.
Arastu capped the 2012 outdoor season with a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Championships to earn All-America second team honors. At the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, he finished runner-up in a career-best time of 49.43, meeting the U.S. Olympic Trials automatic 'A' standard. He earned All-Big Ten second team accolades for his performance at the conference meet.
Prior to the NACAC Championships, Arastu will compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials, which are set for June 21-July 1 in Eugene, Ore. He will be the only returning Wolverine making an appearance at the trials.
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The Hostel Brasil is situated on the fourth floor of a prestigius building of the early 900's.
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The hostel is situated within a very beautiful restored building that dates back
to the early 1900's, it is surrounded by a beautiful garden with lots of plants.All romms are big and snug, with tall ceilings and floor in ancient parquet.
Some rooms faces the inner garden, wich guarantees a comfortable and lightfull ambient.
Tastefully furnished, bright and with a simple yet welcoming atmosphere like that of a private residence,
the rooms of Hostel Brasil have all the essential facilities to ensure a comfortable stay in a Milanese hostel.
Hostel Brasil is happy to propose single, twin, double, triple and quadruple rooms
with en-suite bathrooms (with shower) and without, with shared bathroom facilities on the same floor,
with TV color, which are the ideal solution for the lesser demanding young clientele.
Hostel Brasil offers a pleasant inviting environment where guests will feel immediately at home.
The professional and courteous staff of the hostel is available for providing all useful information
for a stay in Milan: on public transportation, sights, events and exhibitions,
for reserving a taxi and organizing transfers as well as sending and receiving faxes and keeping valuables.
You can arrive at the hostel at any time of day; the reception is always ready for you, 24 hours a day.
Hostel Brasil is located in one of the most central areas of Milan, very close to the Duomo and University,
but also the Court and numerous important Hospitals such as Gaetano Pini,
Policlinico and the National Tumor Institute.
The location of the Hostel Brasil is ideal for those of you with a car
or for public transport use, or even for those who prefer walking.
It takes only a few minutes to reach the beating heart of the city by public transport,
where the grandiose, imposing Duomo rises, a treasure chest of master pieces and works of art,
the construction of which took no less than four centuries (1386-1813),
in the centre of an area full of monuments, of streets, of the most famous places, which is also the economic fulcrum of Milan, the busiest and most frenetic centre of the country, the very heart of national development. Your tourist itinerary can go from the Gallery, the elegant lounge of the city, to the Royal Palace,
the seat of international art exhibitions, to the La Scala Opera House and the Brera Art Gallery,
to the Sforzesco Castle, which all represent permanent symbols of the cultural life of Milan and of Italy.
You can also easily reach the numerous typical or ethnic restaurants by foot.
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Just in case you don't know which to choose or what direction to take,
we would be happy to advise you on the restaurants that we consider the best and most hospitable.
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Then take Viale Corsica for 1.1 km and next Corso XXII Marzo for 500 meters.
Turn right into Piazza Emilia, after 50 meters continue on Viale Piceno for 600 meters.
Viale dei Mille starts after 300 meters, drive down it for another 100 meters to reach Hostel Brasil.
From Centrale station take bus 92 and get off at the Dei Mille – Modena stop.
We are 50 meters away. Or take the number 60 for eight stops.
Get off at Castel Morrone - Modena. Hostel Brasil is 50 meters away.
With tram number 5 get off in Piazza Ascoli, from there it is 300 meters on foot.
If you prefer the metro, take the Yellow line towards San Donato, change at the first stop "Repubblica".
From here take the Ferrovie Nord train for Bovisa and get off at the second stop "Dateo".
The Hostel Brasil is 300 meters from Piazzale Dateo.
From Milan's Linate Airport, take bus no. 73 and get off at Corso XXII Marzo.
From there take bus no. 92 and get off at the Dei Mille – Modena stop. We are 100 meters away.
From Milan's Malpensa airport take the Shuttle for Stazione Centrale (train station).
From there take bus no. 92 and get off at the Dei Mille – Modena stop. We are 100 meters away.
From Milan's Orio al Serio Airport (Bergamo), take the bus for Lambrate station.
Then take bus no. 54 and get off at the Corso Plebisciti stop at the corner of Piazzale Dateo.
We are 300 meters away.
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You can reach the Hostel Brasil with buses 54, 60, 61 and 62.
From Porta Garibaldi and Porta Venezia take the Ferrovie Nord and get off at the Dateo stop.
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Os hóspedes podem cancelar a sua reserva sem encargos referentes ao 1 dia antes da chegada. Após essa data, o estabelecimento cobrará os encargos referentes ao custo de reserva das primeiras noites, exceto se declarado de outro modo nas condições do estabelecimento. Os depósitos pagos não são reembolsáveis.


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Struck. HERE (see Off-Off Broadway). Texts by Kristen Kosmas. Created by Brett Keyser, Tannis Kowalchuk and Ker Wells. Directed by Wells. With Kowalchuk, Keyser. Running time: 1hr. No intermission.
Struck: in brief
Actor and NACL artistic director Tannis Kowalchuk stars in a piece—created with writer Kristen Kosmas, director Ker Wells, costar Brett Keyser and neuroscientist Allison Waters—that explores her rehabilitation after a 2011 stroke.
Struck: theater review by Helen Shaw
The North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL) show Struck seems, at first glance, to be a simple, charming multimedia work, full of singing, sudden bursts of Icelandic and a whimsical, rather fairy-tale sensibility. Yes, it deals with a woman felled by stroke—much of the otherworldly wanderings take place in a snowy landscape she dimly remembers (or has invented) from childhood. Things are clearly dire: In one projection, an ice princess turns suddenly into a neurologist offering only scanty hope. "That's between you and your god," she keeps saying, as the woman (Kowalchuk) asks for reassurance that normal function will return.
But the overarching impulse seems to be joyful, with self-consciously poetic monologues about flowers, love and playfulness itself. The deviser-performers Kowalchuk and Keyser draw on familiar physical theater traditions, transforming with a pair of snowshoes, worn in a variety of configurations, into an Icelandic heroine and a smoking quasi-angel, respectively. Director Ker Wells sends projections in from every direction, and the stage, almost empty, glitters with a bit of fake snow and a series of traveling, gauzy curtains. It's sweet but light—by the end, the thing has almost completely effervesced.
Yet Struck, appropriately, can hit you all of a sudden. Just when it does so depends on when you realize that the woman at its heart—Katherine, who has had this sudden cerebrovascular accident—is being played by the stricken woman herself. In the program Kowalchuk talks about her 2011 stroke, one which left part of her brain irretrievably damaged. It's obviously moving to see how profoundly she has recovered, to realize while her avatar-character has trouble unbuttoning her coat, Kowalchuk herself is graceful, quizzical, funny, earthy…whatever the part requires.
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IKEA's Space-Saving Billboard Fits Three Ads Into One [Video]
Creative advertising uses colored lightbulbs to turn 9 m² of space into 27 m²
You could argue that flat-pack furniture is an idea that was born from the desire to fit as much as possible into the smallest available space. IKEA have once again proven just how good they are at applying that principle with the "RGB Billboard," an advertisement that uses ingenious lighting to fit 27 m² worth of advertising into just 9 m².
Created in partnership with German ad agency Thjnk and the production studio I Made This, the billboard features three different lines of text, each in a different color that is only illuminated when exposed to a specific type of lightbulb. Red bulbs illuminate the cyan text; green lights up magenta; and the blue-purple lights make yellow visible.
As pointed out by AdWeek, it's an idea that is only really effective at night. So while it might be a super-efficient way to get multiple messages across, there are still limitations since the text does not show up as clearly in the bright sunlight. However, in countries that experience perpetual darkness during certain times of the year however, such as Sweden, it could be the perfect way to advertise to that audience.
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8 Myths About Weight Loss Surgery
Kirsty at RealSelf on 19 Mar 2014 at 4:00pm
Weight loss surgery, such as gastric bypass, Lap Band or sleeve gastrectomy is becoming ever more popular as more and more Americans are reported to be in the obese category. This type of surgery is often an individual's last chance at regaining control of their bodies and eating habits after years of weight gain and yo-yo dieting. However, so many people go into weight loss surgery with little knowledge, or they have the misconception that surgery alone will fix everything.
Here is a list of myths about weight loss surgery:
1) Weight loss surgery is a "cure."
Having weight loss surgery is a tool in a long journey to a healthier, fitter and thinner you. Even before you have the surgery, the hard work begins with exercise regimes, losing some pre-surgery weight and changing your diet. All this must continue post-surgery; however, you then have to add more diet requirements and restrictions, more exercise and changing your eating/buying/cooking habits.
2) It's impossible to gain weight after having a gastric bypass.
As mentioned earlier, weight loss surgery is a tool. If you abuse that tool by eating the wrong foods and not exercising then the likelihood is that you will continue to gain weight. "A patient that gains weight over time after surgery is related to the same nutritionally bad habits that originally led to significant weight gain pre-surgery," says Dr. Ricardo M. Bonner, a Houston bariatric surgeon. "Therefore it is important in the immediate post-operative period to develop a good game plan and establish healthy eating habits that will carry you for the rest of your life."
3) You have to be 300lbs to qualify for weight-loss surgery.
There are guidelines for weight-loss surgery, set by the NIH (National Institutes of Health). However, it's not just based on weight alone but on what other medical conditions you also have, such as diabetes. The NIH recognizes anyone with a BMI equal to or greater than 30 as "obese." If your BMI is less than 30 you are unlikely to be approved for weight loss surgery. However, as each individual's case differs, you must always consult with your doctor.
4) You can only have a liquid diet after weight loss surgery.
This is not true. However, it is true that you will be on a liquid diet for a short period of time. Before you have weight loss surgery your doctor will put you on a liquid diet for approximately two weeks. This allows your liver to shrink and makes the surgery easier to undertake. You will then be on a liquid diet for approximately 1-2 weeks post-surgery and then transitioned onto a regular solid food diet.
5) You will be left with a big scar after weight loss surgery.
A few decades ago this may have been true, due to the type of surgery that was performed. However, the majority of weight loss surgeries are now carried out laparoscopically, meaning you will be left with a very small mark. "Lap Band, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy are performed via a laparoscopic technique," says Dr. Ricardo M. Bonner, a Houston bariatric surgeon. "The laparoscopic technique is a minimally invasive way that a surgeon can perform complex procedures that used to require the conventional large incisions."
6) If you have weight loss surgery you cannot get pregnant.
It is possible to have children after weight loss surgery. However, most doctors will advise you to wait 1-2 years before trying to get pregnant. This is because you need to wait until you have lost a large proportion of what you wanted to lose and your weight loss has stabilized. After weight loss surgery your hormones will be changing and your body will be nutritionally depleted until you stabilize your daily vitamin intake. This is because the operation inhibits the absorption of vitamins and minerals. All of these things can affect getting pregnant and are the main reasons why your doctor will advise you to wait.
7) All weight loss patients will have "dumping syndrome."
Dumping syndrome, although common after weight loss surgery, is not experienced by everyone. Some people don't "dump" at all, some occasionally and some extensively. "Dumping syndrome is commonly caused by the rapid entry of undigested food products from the stomach into the small bowel where your body is not prepared for the concentration and rushes to dilute it by "dumping" fluid and electrolytes rapidly into the contents of the intestines," says Dr Otto Joseph Placik, a Chicago plastic surgeon. "Avoiding excessively fatty foods, or high sugar simple carbohydrate meals in small portions, may help to ease the symptoms."
8) Insurance will not cover my weight loss surgery.
Insurance companies use the NIH (National Institutes of Health) guidelines when considering whether or not to support weight loss surgery. However, it is not all based on weight alone. If you have other risk factors that your obesity is causing, adding to or affecting, it may be possible to use this as supporting evidence for your insurance claim. "I did not have any risk factors to get the surgery but I pressed my breast cancer as a reason and the insurance company okayed it," commented Myselfagain in her gastric bypass review. Every insurance company works to different guidelines, so you should always check with your insurance company first. In the United Kingdom and Canada it may also be possible to get this surgery through the National Health System.
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a combination of planned government spending cuts and tax increases which must take place in the future because a temporary financial law has ended
'The fiscal cliff, as we've come to call it, amounts to a $700 billion combination of expiring Bush tax cuts and congressionally mandated spending cuts that could, if fully enacted, tip the economy back into recession.'WBUR 26th November 2012
'Markets 'sensitive' in wake of US and Japan fiscal cliffs.'Farming UK 26th November 2012
If you don't have much of a head for heights, then the expression fiscal cliff might conjure up unsettling images of precarious mountain and coastal paths. However if you've seen this term splashed across the media recently, then you may already know that it doesn't have anything to do with geographical features. It does on the other hand represent a situation which is equally 'hazardous', having the potential to tip things over the edge financially rather than physically.
the fiscal cliff refers to a double-whammy of both tax increases and spending cuts, which are due to coincide at the beginning of 2013
Fiscal cliff is the expression currently being used to describe an imminent financial scenario in the USA which potentially has very serious consequences for the country's economy and could possibly push it back into recession. Specifically, the fiscal cliff refers to a double whammy of both tax increases and spending cuts, which are due to coincide at the beginning of 2013. As well as planned reductions in welfare and defence budgets, personal and federal incomes will take a heavy blow because of the cessation of a raft of tax cuts, which were introduced under former president Bush's administration back in 2001. Unable to secure the required majority in Congress, the tax cuts were pushed through on a temporary basis under a ruling that expired in 2011. This deadline was subsequently extended for two years under President Obama, but those two years are up on December 31st, meaning that the tax break will be over – just at the very time that public spending is to be significantly decreased.
Though fiscal cliff is mainly used to describe the impending situation in the USA, the expression has also been used in reference to other world economies, in particular Japan.
Some financial analysts have argued however that expressions such as fiscal slope or fiscal hill might be more appropriate metaphors in the US context because, though impact on the economy is predicted to be substantial during 2013, it's more likely to be cumulative rather than immediate, building up gradually as the weeks and months progress. The US population are nevertheless bracing themselves for the impact of these measures, anxious about a possible double hit of loss of income coupled with a reduction in welfare. Such anxieties have already led to related coinages such as household cliff in reference to the financial predicament of the man on the street.
As a reference to the impending financial issues in the USA, fiscal cliff was first used in late 2010, when the tax cuts implemented by President Bush were originally due to expire. Popular use of the expression was galvanized by Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, who in February 2012 said that "Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases". However, though only recently brought into the spotlight, the expression fiscal cliff is not particularly new and in fact dates back to 1957, when it first appeared in an article about home ownership in the New York Times. It took a couple of decades before it was to be used with a wider reference though, becoming popular as a metaphor for the precarious condition of state and federal budgets in the early eighties.
With its use of adjective fiscal, an adjective mainly confined to the vocabularies of economists, fiscal cliff represents a striking combination of metaphorical and specialist words. Fiscal dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, and has its origins in the Latin word fiscus, meaning 'purse' or 'treasury'.
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I am almost due with #4. I have had an issue with ALL my babies crying in the car. I can't understand these parents with little ones that love the car and fall asleep. Mine scream like they are dying. My theory behind this is I've always been an attachment parent. My babies are pretty much glued to me 24/7. I don't believe in pacifiers and nurse on demand which seems constantly. So when we go anywhere they are suddenly strapped in an uncomfortable seat, backwards, alone, with motion and they scream! I don't handle crying and can't let them cry and choke in their seats, so I stop, and stop, and stop and nurse to calm. It has taken me 2 hours to make a 15 minute trip in the past. I have tried out of desperation pacifiers in the car to no avail.
My midwife recommended that I never use an infant car seat and go straight to a big one. She says babies that cry in the car often don't in the bigger seat. However my friend's son is also a car screamer and he has always had a big seat. So before #4 comes and we are trapped at home unable to travel with a screaming baby- does anyone have any suggestions or things that worked for them?
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DD didn't take a pacifier either and cried in the car (not all the time, but often enough). We used a large convertible car seat rather than an infant seat, though I'm not sure how that would make a difference? Unless the suggestion is to turn them forward-facing early which I don't agree with at all.
What I ended up doing was twisting my arm behind me and letting DD suck on my finger while I drove. This seemed to calm her and I could touch her hair and face too once she calmed a bit and didn't need to suck. I'll tell you it was not much fun for my shoulder, especially since we had that tall convertible seat, but it worked, mostly anyway. Eventually some toys or whatever I found in my purse or the car would work too so long as it was novel enough (I started keeping an assortment of weird baby-safe objects in the center console, lol). They would get tossed away quickly and I'd hand her another. Of course non-toy items were always more interesting to her.
My son loved the car -- was the only way he'd nap after he hit a year old. My daughter (now 9 months) has always hated it. Both kids were worn, nursed on demand, etc. Only difference is Audrey prefers to sleep in her own space whereas Ryan was my cosleeper (and still is at 5).
With my daughter -- we switched to a convertible, didn't help. We had chiro adjustments. Didn't help. Never could get her to take a paci. Stopping and nursing only excarbated the issue when I put her back in the carseat and she screamed harder and longer so I stopped doing that. Toys didn't help. The light up singy mirror didn't help. The only thing that helped was really loud (as in, could feel the bass) rock music. Which my son hated. Ha.
So... she cried. a lot. If it was a trip that would be less than 20 minutes, I didn't stop at all. The few times we had to go 30-45 minutes, I'd stop at the halfway point and get out and comfort her (without removing her from the seat).
Now at 9 months old, she's iffy. Sometimes she hates it, sometimes she's okay with it. It's just something that she's growing out of (or in to?).
Good luck, mama! <3
Also, with three other kids -- maybe the other ones can help entertain the baby in the carseat? Ryan is helpful in that regard a lot... he'll sing and hold her hand and do things like that with her which helps when she's getting fussy.
Oh, I feel you.
DS's first four months were absolutely hellish for car rides. I really don't know what she hated about the carseat so much, but now at 5 months, she is doing A LOT better....
Some things that we had success with:
The pacifier. I know you said you don't really use them, but they were pretty much a lifesaver on some trips. When she was a newborn, one of us often sat in the backseat and actually held the pacifier in since she wasn't very successful at keeping it in herself. Could one of your older children reach LO#4 to help hold the paci in?
Putting her in the carseat just after she had fallen asleep. this one took a lot of planning in advance. We would get the car loaded with bag and whatever else we were taking, get DS in (he's 3) start the car, and then wait for her to drift off. Ever so gently, I'd place her in the carseat and tighten the straps ridiculously slowly so as not to wake her up. Then carry the carseat out to the car and go. This worked pretty well most of the time. She would take a regular length nap while the car was running, so it was good for a hour or so trip.
We did what we jokingly called "conditioning" at times. When I would put her into the carseat initially, I would smile excessively, talk super sweet talk, and try to be insanely happy/give her positive vibes about the carseat. I'd spend a good 5 or 10 minutesgiving her lots of love while she sat in the carseat... and then bring her out to the car.
Putting something into her hands, even when she was a newborn/infant seemed to help. As soon as she could grasp, I would put one of those plastic play rings in each of her hands before we started driving. She would grip them for most of the trip.
Now at 4 and 5 months, plastic rings hanging from the carseat handle are pretty much what keeps her happy and entertained. (i know, they aren't recommended for use while driving, but....)
I totally hear where you are coming from on the crying. I often stopped and held her or nursed if she started crying. It took us forever to get places sometimes, too. for the sake of practicality, I try to tough out about 5 minutes of crying. I can't in good conscience let it go longer than that. But to be realistic, I do let her fuss/cry for a bit if I know I am just a few more minutes from our destination. Especially since I know I'm going to get her out of the car as soon as we get there and hold her.... Hope that helps some....
Toys helped when they were older but not when they were tiny. The thing which helps the most is singing. We just had to find the right song. For DD1 it was twinkle twinkle little star. For DD2 it is Galoomph went the little green frog.
Time is the only real cure though :-(
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Oh gosh, I know what you mean. My first only cried on long trips, which I completely understand. My second doesn't care for even a 15-minute trip sometimes! I'm an AP as well. I absolutely hate letting babies cry too.
First, I try to make baby a priority before I leave the house. I make sure she's clean and dry, and I nurse her before I go anywhere.
If she's wide awake and alert, I make sure she has something to entertain her - a couple of toys or teethers with different textures. If she's sleepy, I often sing softly from the front seat. I always have two pacifiers at hand in the cup-holder so I can pass one back to her. I didn't give pacifiers for the first 2 months to either of my children, but I'm glad I offered them later.. I only ever give them for car rides, and nap and bedtimes.
However, if she cries and it's just the two of us, and a pacifier and singing don't help, I just grit my teeth and get to my destination if it is only a 10-15 minute drive. Sometimes it makes more sense to let them cry and get where you're going if it's a short drive, than to pull over and comfort them, only to have them freak out when you get back on the road.
For a long trip, we take a break every 2.5 hours to 3 hours (roughly how long our daughter will nap), and we make that a nice hour-long break to really stretch, take our time with nursing and diaper changing, etc.
If my husband is driving, I've crawled into the backseat on numerous occasions just to keep our daughter company, entertain her, or even nurse her while she's in her seat. So those are the steps I take: try to make sure baby is as comfortable as possible before going out and timing trips well - I always time mine for when she normally naps because, at that point, the car definitely lulls her to sleep. Also try carrying on a conversation or singing. If that fails, try some classical music to keep you at least a little less tense while driving with a crying baby. Good luck!
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AP isn't about not letting baby cry, it's about responding to the crying. So when in the car I try to respond verbally and sing to let the babies know I'm there for them. If they get totally desperate I pull over and nurse. I always try to give baby the opportunity to self soothe or problem solve for herself (while providing love and support) before jumping in and "fixing" it for her.
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I would give a pasifier and just drive. The motion of the car eventually puts them to sleep. Stopping every 15 minutes just interrupts that.
You can try different seat but it has to be correct one for their age and weight. Simply putting them into a bigger seat is unsafe.
I don't think it is your AP style that is making your babies hate the carseats, I think they just hate them. My twins are totally fine in the car, fall asleep, etc. The only time they get fussy is when they are hungry or bored or have been in the seat for hours and want out (takes at least 4 hours if not more for that to happen). And while they are twins and aren't held quite as much as DD1 was just because there are two of them, still I can tell it is just a temperament difference. It is nothing I did, so don't feel like it is your fault. DD1 never wanted to be put down ever, she was just a high needs baby. Again, nothing I did to cause it.
I do think it is totally fine to give your baby a pacifier or whatever else in the car if it helps. Stop if you have to, but it's ok not to stop too. Singing helped me, not sure if it helped DD1 as well as holding her little hand. Good luck OP, I really hope your fourth is a car-loving baby.
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I am glad you mentioned singing. For my sons, music made a huge difference. Once we we found a song he loved, it really soothed him. I just played it again and again
Mine did this in the first 8 weeks and then settled. She also won't take a pacifier. We tried to time outings with sleepy time - that helped a bit, but not until those first two months were over and she was overall screaming less. She's 12 weeks now and we were even able to do a 7 hour car ride a few weeks ago!
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The ONLY thing that worked was baby einstien or whatever in a portable DVD player to distract her. It worked. I kept my sanity and was able to drive (I absolutely can't drive with a screaming baby-- too distracting). I suggest you make sure you keep the player with you rather then in the car because we got ours stolen. I'm still upset about how stupid we were for leaving it in the car!
Hoping and praying this new little one (she's almost 2wks) doesn't hate the car. She's too sleepy now for me to gadge but I do remember DD hating the car right from the start!
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Andre Kasten, Jacob Jonas and Lindsay Nelko to Showcase Work at Capezio A.C.E. Award Winners Festival, 8/4-7
Capezio A.C.E. Award Winners Festival, a competition dedicated to introducing the next generation of emerging and influential choreographers, announces its lineup for the winners performance festival, August 4 - August 7 at Ailey Citigroup Theater (405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue).
Featured in this year's Award Winners Festival will be first runner-up Andre Kasten (Dancer for Celine Dion, Elton John, & Jennifer Lopez), co-second runner-up Jacob Jonas (Choreographer of the feature film "Claire's Cambodia") and co-second runner-up Lindsay Nelko (Choreographer for "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 10), who each received a grant and one year to produce their work. Each of the winners have three performances to showcase their full-length pieces. First place winner, Erica Sobol's full-length show was performed in Los Angeles earlier this year.
Now in its sixth season, the Capezio A.C.E. Award competition receives 150 to 250 choreography submissions every year, representing all styles of dance from tap, jazz, ballet, modern to musical theatre. The top 15 submissions are selected to come to New York and present their work at The Dance Teacher Summit. A panel of representatives from Capezio, Dance Teacher Summit, Dance Spirit Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine and the dance industry deliberate to select three pieces to be expanded into full-length shows.
"The Dance Teacher Summit is committed to featuring emerging choreographers who foster the art of dance," said Katy Malone, Director, Dance Teacher Summit. "To further this goal, the Summit is proud to partner with Capezio to host the annual A.C.E. Award competition to introduce these talented choreographers to the concert and theatrical world. For most young dancers, teachers and choreographers, it is too expensive to self-produce their work. We are thankful for the generous contributions Capezio makes to help artists begin their careers and we look forward to sharing these groundbreaking new works with dance audiences in New York."
The four evenings of dance will be divided between the award winners, the schedule is as follows:
August 4 - 7, 2014, The Ailey Citigroup Theater (405 West 55th Street at 9thAvenue)
Monday, August 4, 2014
9:30pm - Andre Kasten's Gray St
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
6pm - Andre Kasten's Gray St
8pm - Jacob Jonas's In A Room on Broad Street
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
6pm - Lindsay Nelko's Awakening
8pm - Andre Kasten's Gray St
10pm - Jacob Jonas's In A Room on Broad Street
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2. Tevita Halalilo, 6-4.5, 240, Moreno Valley (Calif.) Rancho Verde
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3. Semisi Uluave, 6-5, 320, Honolulu (Hawaii) Punahour
The Skinny: After a sterling performance at the Oakland NFTC, Uluave was invited to The Opening. Now fully healthy, he leads a powerful Punahou offensive line.
4. Tim Lynott, 6-4, 295, Aurora (Colo.) Regis Jesuit
Committed to Colorado
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10. Ve'ehala Tuihalamaka, Los Angeles (Calif.) Cathedral
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Books focusing on the principles and primitives that allow us to specify conceptual schemas(also known as domain models) for the software system we want to develop.
A conceptual schema describes the knowledge of the domain that the system will need to perform its functions.
Books in this section use a particular modeling language (e.g. first-order logic, UML, E/R,…) to illustrate the modeling concepts though the focus is not on the language but on the clear description of the modeling primitives.
Only the books I've personally read are included in the list (yes! this means that if you want me TO review your book you must hand me a copy :-D). Follow the link below to search for additional books.
Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems by Antoni Olivé
I'd dare to say that this is THE book of conceptual modeling. The author covers all aspects of conceptual modeling, clearly explaining the semantics of each modeling construct and justifying their necessity by means of convincing examples (in UML) that show why they are needed to capture the richness of real-life domains in a way that software systems can understand and mimic.
This book is a mandatory reading for all those who want to be true modellers. Instead, if you are just interested in learning some UML basic concepts I'd recommend trying a more basic UML book from the UML books page .
DISCLAIMER: I believe this review is objective but I'd like to clarify that the author has been (and still is) one of my research mentors.
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