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WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL Si I 1 i i I a- zZ TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 2012 AO Florida Atlantic University Regional Redevelopment Authority is redeveloping the former Brunswick Naval Air Station, now named Brunswick Landing, and the Kestrel expansion was a key prospect. In July 2010, the company announced it would develop a composite -airplane manufacturing plant Brunswick, Tire $100 million project called for about 300 new jobs. A company spokeswoman said in October the project was heavily reliant on federal tax credits. The New Market program would have given Kestrel $39 million in tax credits for the Maine project.

But so far, Kestrel has received only $7.8 million in tax credits, and company officials said they learned in the fall there are no guarantees more credits will be coming in Brunswick. The New Market program is designed to bring jobs and investment to low-income or distressed areas. This undated handout photo provided by Florida Atlantic University shows a baby looking at a monitor, wearing a band that contains a magnet the head-tracker under the monitor uses to determine head position, which, in turn, enables the eye tracker to find the eye and the pupil. Continued from Page A1 including $30 million in New Market Tax Credits in 2012, $60 million in future allocations, and a $2 million loan through the states Small Business Credit Initiative Program through the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.

is adding $18 million in Enterprise Zone Tax Credits and a $2 million economic development loan. The package also includes $3.1 million in tax increment financing and a $2.4 million low-interest loan through the city of Superior. It also includes the transfer of county-owned land next to the Bong Airport and a $500,000 loan through the Douglas County Revolving Loan Fund. Walker said this is the largest single job-creation project since he took office. The next closest was 469 jobs announced in Sturte-vant a couple months ago.

In Maine, the Midcoast Continued from Page At study published Monday. Its an incredibly complex process. Apparently, it doesnt take them too long to absorb the movements that match basic sounds. By their first birthdays, babies start shifting back to look you in the eye again unless they hear the unfamiliar sounds of a foreign language. Then, they stick with lip-reading a bit longer.

Its a pretty intriguing finding, says University of Iowa psychology professor Bob McMurray, who also studies speech development. The babies know what they need to know about, and theyre able to deploy their attention to whats important at that point in development. The new research appears in this weeks issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It offers more evidence that quality facetime with your tot is very important for speech development more than, say, turning on the latest baby DVD. It also begs the question of whether babies who turn out to have developmental disorders, including autism, learn to speak the same way, or if they show differences that just might provide an early warning sign.

Unraveling how babies learn to speak isnt merely a curiosity. Neuroscientists want to know how to encourage that process, especially if it doesnt seem to be happening on time. Plus, it helps them under stand how the brain wires itself early in life for learning all kinds of things. Those coos of early infancy start changing around age 6 months, growing into the syllables of the babys native language until the first word emerges. A lot of research has centered on the audio side.

That sing-song speech that parents intuitively use? Scientists know the pitch attracts babies attention, and the rhythm exaggerates key sounds. Other studies have shown that babies who are best where each baby was focusing his or her gaze and for how long. They found a dramatic shift in attention: When the speaker used English, the 4-month-olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The 6 month olds spent equal amounts of time looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8- and 10-month-olds studied mostly the mouth.

At 12 months, attention started shifting back toward the speakers eyes. It makes sense that at 6 months, babies begin observing lip movement, Lewkowicz says, because thats about the time babies' brains gain the ability to control their attention rather than automatically look toward noise. But what happened when these babies accustomed to English heard Spanish? The 12-month-olds studied the mouth longer, just like younger babies. They needed the extra information to decipher the unfamiliar sounds. That fits with research into bilingualism that shows babies brains finetime themselves to start distinguishing the sounds of their native language over other languages in the first year of life.

Thats one reason its easier for babies to become bilingual than older children or adults. But the continued lip-reading shows the 1-year-olds clearly still are primed for learning, McMurray says. Babies are so hard to study that this is a fairly heroic data set, says Duke University cognitive neuroscientist Greg Ap-pelbaum, who found the research so compelling he wants to know more. Are the babies who start to shift their gaze back to the eyes a bit earlier better learners, or impatient? What happens with a foreign language after 12 months? Lewkowicz is continuing his studies of typically developing babies. He theorizes there may be different patterns in children at risk of autism, something autism experts caution would be hard to prove.

David Hench of the Portland (Maim) Press Herald and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Continued from previous page i wife. Gladys in 2010, a son, David, great grandson, Randy, and a sister and brother-in-law, Leona and Melvin Jaggi. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012. at ST.

ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH, 301 S. Mam Verona, at 11 a with Father William Vernon officiating Burial will follow at St Andrew Catholic Cemetery A visitation will be held at the church on Wednesday from 9 30 a.m until the time of Mass. The family wishes to thank the staffs at Dean Clinic Oregon. St Mary's Hospital, Four Winds Nursing Home and Agrace Hospice. The family wishes to express their gratitude to his dear friends and neighbors on Jefferson Street, especially Pat, Orinand Ernie In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Agrace HospiceCare, 5395 Cheryl Parkway, Madison, Wl 53711, or St Andrew Catholic Church, 301 S.

Main Verona, Wl 53593. He will be deeply missed by his family To view and sign this guestbook please visit www ryanfuneralserv-ice com. Ryan Funeral Home Cremation Services Verona Chapel 220 Enterprise Drive (608) 845-6625 at distinguishing between vowel sounds like ah and ee shortly before their first birthday wind up with better vocabularies and pre-reading skills by kindergarten. But scientists have long known that babies also look to speakers faces for social cues about what theyre hearing. Like adults, theyre drawn to the eyes, which convey important nonverbal messages.

Lewkowicz went a step further, wondering whether babies look to the lips for cues as well, sort of like how adults lip-read to decipher what someones saying at a noisy party. So he and doctoral student Amy Hansen-Tift tested almost 180 babies, groups of them at ages 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months. I low They showed videos of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. A gadget mounted on a soft headband tracked music, doing crossword puzzles, boating and hosting cookouts She is survived by her children, Susan (Frank) Butler of Fitchburg, and Larry Schneider of Madison, granddaughter, Samantha Butler, step-grandsons, Frank ''Trey" Butler III and Christopher Butler, siblings, Jimmy (Marie) Thomas, Jack (Cor-rine) Thomas, Judy (Dave) Sch-wenn, Jerry Thomas, Joyce (Tom) Wolf and Jeff (Patti) Thomas, and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends She was preceded in death by her husband, Duane in 2006, and her parents. Funeral services will be held at 11 a on Wednesday, Jan.

18, 2012, at the JOYCE RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 5701 Odana Road with the Rev. Sum Caylor officiating Visitation will be held from 9 am. until the time of service on Wednesday at the funeral home Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Fitchburg Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program. The family would like to extend a special thanks to her friends at Chapel Valley Apartments for their loving support during her recent illness.

To view and sign this guestbook, please visit www ryanfuneralserv-ice com. Joyce-Ryan Funeral Home Cremation Service 5701 Odana Road (608) 274-1000 Winkelman, Lester A. VERONA Lester A Winkelman, age 93. of Verona, died on Saturday, Jan 14, 2012, at Agrace Hos-piceCare He was born on Jan. 18, 1918, in a log cabin on the family farm in Verona, the son of Adolph and Fannie (Gentz) Winkelman He married the former Gladys Weisensel on Sept.

1. 1941, and they were inseparable until her death in 2010. Les worked the family farm on Riverside Road until 1974 He always enjoyed his cars and tractors. He was a very active and self-sufficient man, He was still changing the oil in his Buick at age 92. He is survived by three sons.

Jim (Sally) of Verona. John (Trouti) of Verona, and Robert (Julie) of New Glarus; six grandchildren, Jim, Vicki, Shay and Eric Winkelman, and Shari (Mike) Krueger and Sara (Matt) Quigle; 10 great-grandchildren. and many nieces and nephews He was preceded in death by his Schneider, Janis E. MADISON Jams E. Schneider, age 76, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family on Saturday, Jan 14 2012.

in Madison. She was born on March 19, 1935, on the family farm northwest of La Farge. daughter of Orlan and Ona (Martinson) Thomas, She graduated from Viola High School, Viola, Wis After graduation, Jams moved to Madison, where she met her husband of 46 years, Duane Schneider They were united in marriage on July 23, 1960 in Madison. While raising her children, she served as a den mother for the Cub Scouts and was also an avid bowler. Jams worked for Graber Industries for many years, retiring in 1991.

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