Wednesday, October 31, 2012

How Do Animals Become Zombies? Instant Egghead [Video]

Scientific American explains how animals--and possibly humans--can become real life zombies


zombie cat parasiteZombie world: Parasites are responsible for many of the real life zombies in the wild kingdom. Image: Instant Egghead

It may sound like something straight out of a horror movie, but many animals can come under the zombie-like control of parasites. So what about humans? Scientific American editor Katherine Harmon fills us in on the ghoulish side of Nature.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Video: Top tips to keep kids calm during the storm

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Why I am voting for Obama | Wives Unscripted

I?m very involved in politics. I stay informed by watching and reading various news sources. I feel it?s very important to stay informed so you can make educated choices about who you are voting for. Based on my beliefs, I identify with the Democratic party. However, I never vote my party line just because they are a Democrat. I always like to understand where someone stands on at least one of my key issues listed below.

  • Women?s rights
  • Gay marriage equality
  • Health care reform
  • Immigration reform
  • Education
  • Taxes on the middle class vs. Taxes for the wealthy

The presidential election is no exception. I have voted in every presidential election since turning 18. I even drove home from college to vote in the 2004 election because my absentee ballot never arrived. ?I waited to change my name in 2008 after getting married to make sure my vote counted. I voted in 2008 after waiting in line for over an hour to cast my vote. I felt it was my duty as an American to make sure my vote is counted. ?Every vote counts, even if you don?t think it does. In my opinion you can?t complain about any administration if you never voted in the first place.

With all of that said, I would like to outline why I feel Barack Obama will get my vote come November 6th.

Women?s Rights

I believe that women shouldn?t be paid less for the same job as men. ?Barack Obama signed the Fair Pay Act to ensure this doesn?t happen.

I strongly believe in a women?s right to choose, and that any medical decision should be between herself and her doctor to make. Barack Obama stands behind that and will not attempt to repeal Roe vs. Wade.

I also believe strongly that all?preventative?care should be covered in full by all health insurance companies. Only with?preventative?care can we catch things early enough to be treated with minimal intervention saving health insurance companies, tax payers and patients a lot of money. Obama?s health care plan requires all insurance companies to provide preventative care at no cost.

Women should have easy access to low cost birth control. I don?t necessarily agree that it needs to be fully covered by insurance companies. However, all women deserve the right to access low cost birth control. Without this, more and more unwanted pregnancies will occur forcing many American?s to make hard choices, depend on government support, or live in poverty. Obama?s health care plan requires insurance companies to provide birth control to all women.

Gay Marriage Equality

I believe that the government needs to recognize all marriages, not just those between a man and a woman. Barack Obama has already repealed Don?t Ask Don?t Tell. He also would like to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act that recognizes marriage as between one man and one woman. I will say that just because the government recognizes the marriage doesn?t mean that a religious institution needs to. The reason for this is to allow all men and women to receive all benefits that come with being married (ie, taxes, health decisions). These cannot be accomplished with civil unions.

Health Care Reform

Health Care in America is broken. We pay out the nose for coverage, only to be denied because of a pre-existing condition, or because we reached out lifetime limit. This needs to end. Health Care decisions need to be between patients and their doctors. Health Insurance Companies should not have a say in what procedures are done, or if someone can afford those procedures.

As touched upon before, there needs to be low cost access to preventative care. Only through this will potentially deadly diseases (that are completely treatable) be caught earlier to save costs all around.

Prevent companies from discriminating from patients because of pre-existing conditions. This is something I very very strongly believe in. I was born with a condition called Hydrocephalus. It is very treatable. When I was a month old, I had a shunt installed to help the excess fluid drain from my brain. I had a second surgery at age 10 to extend the shunt tubing because I had grown. But because of this diagnosis, I was denied health insurance after I reached the age to be dropped by my parents insurance. I had little choice but to pay the $600 a month insurance premium to keep any coverage (that didn?t include any co-pays or prescription costs).

Obama?s Health Insurance Plan addresses each of these issues. Is it a perfect fix, no. But he came up with a plan to help fix these problems. I would like to see the plan?tweaked?in the future to make the plan work better. I also don?t completely agree with the mandate. But then again, many states mandate insurance for cars. At some point in your life, you will need health insurance. It shouldn?t be something afforded to just those that can afford it.

Immigration Reform

I believe that illegal immigrants that were brought here as children should have a chance to become US citizens. There needs to be a process that these children can live and thrive legally in the US. I remember reading a story last spring about several high school students in Florida who were on tap to be deported from the US. Most had lived here since before they started school. One was the valedictorian of their high school and had received a scholarship for college. This was now in jeopardy because of their illegal status. This child should have a chance to stay and prosper in the US as a productive member of American society by following a citizenship process. Obama?s DREAM Act is a step towards this.

Education

Higher education should not be just a privilege for the wealthy. That was not what our country was founded on. Everyone should have a chance to go to college and continue their education. ?Student loan rates need to be kept low to allow young adults to complete their education without fear for what will happen after college. Obama made sure that Student Loan interest rates didn?t double this summer. He also made sure that monthly repayments are no more than 10% of income.

We have to make sure that our workforce is keeping up with today?s technology. ?He invested in community college to help provide career training programs. He also helped give my husband a job ;)

Taxes & The Economy

This is a huge issue and one of the big reasons I?m going to vote for Obama come November. ?I truly believe that our country would be in a much better position if we taxed everyone on a flat tax rate. But since that isn?t going to happen, making sure everyone is taxed fairly is a good start. This means that those that can afford to pay more, do. It doesn?t make sense that someone like myself is taxed at say 15% and someone who makes millions a year is only taxed at 11%. This can?t continue to happen. In order to balance the budget, we need to cut spending AND increase our tax revenue. Obama has tried his hardest to make this happen. ?However, there have been many obstacles in his way.

I also believe that corporations shouldn?t receive tax breaks for sending jobs overseas. The tax incentives should go to those companies that keep jobs here in the US. Obama has proposed this legislation and has not had the support in congress to allow it to be made into law.

These are the issues I feel are VERY important. Yes there are plenty of other issues out there. ?But I only vote for someone who agrees with me on my key issues. Those are the things that are near and dear to my heart. I would have a hard time supporting a candidate that didn?t represent my interests on the majority of those issues.

Note: ?All of the information on where Obama stands on the issues above came from?barackobama.com. I was not compensated to write this post. These are my honest opinions.

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Source: http://www.wivesunscripted.com/2012/10/30/obama/

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IVR Deconstructed ? Disaster Communications

A large majority of the country is now hunkered down and waiting for Hurricane Sandy to hit. Public transport up and down the eastern seaboard has been suspended indefinitely, and major news outlets like the New York Times and CNN have warned that 60 million people might be affected by the storm, with a large majority potentially losing power.

As many east coast residents may soon come to realize, losing power doesn?t necessarily mean losing telephonic communications, especially for those using a non-cordless landline phone (cordless phones function using electric power, so they will not work if power is lost).

Power outages can significantly contribute to the confusion and concern caused by natural weather disasters like Hurricane Sandy. With bridges, tunnels, roads, and transportation systems closed, many people rely on television and Internet to receive frequent and accurate storm updates.

But what happens if electricity goes out and citizens are unable to access these communications? Local and national authorities should (and typically do) have backup plans in place to disseminate critical information in the event that basic utilities fail. Landline phones, and recorded messages sent through IVR systems on these phones, are critical in maintaining contact with citizens in the event of a crisis.

When power goes out, landlines and mobiles can still function properly since they rely on a different power grid than the one that operates the city?s electrical grid. Phone systems, especially landlines, are highly reliable due in large part to their construction and simplicity

Per an article featured in Weather.com ?Corded landline phones may work even if the power goes out, because they?re powered from the phone jack, which in turn is powered from the phone company?s facilities. These are equipped with generators and backup batteries.?

Per an article on the Discovery Channel, landlines often work when the power fails because ?they don?t use much power, the wires for the landline telephone usually are buried underground and safe from most storms, and the telephone company has installed both a backup generator and a large array of batteries in case of disaster.?

IVR systems can relay prerecorded, geo-coded messages to residents based on physical location. Since landlines often still work long after the power has gone out, utilizing interactive voice response technology in combination with landline phone systems can offer the best way to communicate during a disaster, and can help in keeping people safe and sound.

Source: http://www.plumvoice.com/blog/disaster-communications

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Dragon Capsule Heads Home From ISS

An Anonymous Coward sent word that the SpaceX Dragon capsule is heading home from the International Space Station. From the article: "The unmanned Dragon space capsule set off from the International Space Station Sunday for the cargo-laden return trip to Earth after successfully delivering its first commercial payload, NASA said.

Using a robotic arm, an astronaut aboard the floating laboratory detached and released the capsule at 1329 GMT after an 18-day mission to resupply the space station, the first ever by a privately-owned company, SpaceX.

The next step will be to bring the capsule out of orbit by intermittently firing its onboard engines to slow its speed.

It is then supposed to parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the California coast at 1920 GMT."

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/RHg48XcLhRw/dragon-capsule-heads-home-from-iss

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Reports: UK police arrest Gary Glitter

FILE - In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Metropolitan Police said they arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning at his London home, on suspicion of sexual offenses, and that he remains in custody in a London police station. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

FILE - In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Metropolitan Police said they arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning at his London home, on suspicion of sexual offenses, and that he remains in custody in a London police station. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

FILE - In this March 3, 2006 file photo, former British rocker Gary Glitter smiles at journalists prior to his verdict and sentencing at Ba Ria-Vung, Vung Tau province People's Court in Vietnam. Police investigating a sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection to the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Metropolitan Police said they arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning at his London home, on suspicion of sexual offenses. The force did not identify the man, but British media including the BBC and Press Association reported he was Glitter, 68, a former rock musician and a convicted sex offender. Glitter's real name is Paul Gadd. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Cameras are seen above a sign at the BBC Television Centre, in London Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The BBC is facing questions over sexual abuse allegations against former television presenter Jimmy Savile. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

FILE - This is a March 25, 2008 file photo of Sir Jimmy Savile, who for decades was a fixture on British television. A year after he died, aged 84 and honored as Sir Jimmy, several women have come forward to claim he was also a sexual predator and serial abuser of underage girls. The child abuse scandal that has enveloped the BBC, one of Britain's most respected news organizations, is now hitting one of America's, as the incoming president of The New York Times is on the defensive about his final days as head of the BBC. Mark Thompson was in charge of the BBC in late 2011 when the broadcaster shelved what would have been a bombshell investigation alleging that the late Savile was a serial sex offender. (AP Photo/ Lewis Whyld/PA, File)

LONDON (AP) ? The sex abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile widened on Sunday as police arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said.

Police would not directly identify the suspect arrested Sunday, but media including the BBC and Press Association reported he was the 68-year-old Glitter. The musician made it big with the crowd-pleasing hit "Rock & Roll (Part 2)," a mostly instrumental anthem that has been a staple at American sporting events thanks to its catchy "hey" chorus. But he fell into disgrace after being convicted on child abuse charges in Britain and Vietnam.

British police do not generally identify suspects under arrest by name until they are charged. When asked about Glitter, a spokesman said only that the force arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning in London on suspicion of sexual offenses in connection with the Savile probe. He remains in custody in a London police station, police said.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is the first suspect to be arrested in the scandal. It was not immediately clear if Glitter and Savile knew each other.

Hundreds of potential victims have come forward since police began their investigation into sex abuse allegations against Savile, the longtime host of popular shows "Top of the Pops" and "Jim'll Fix It" who died at age 84 last year. Most allege abuse by Savile, but some said they were abused by Savile and others.

Glitter broke out with his look of shiny jumpsuits, silver platform shoes and bouffant wigs, scoring a string of hits in the 1970s, but his music has often been shunned since his abuse convictions. In 2006, the NFL advised its football teams not to use the Glitter version of "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" at games.

Glitter was convicted in 2006 in Vietnam of committing "obscene acts with children" ? offenses involving girls aged 10 and 11. He was deported back to Britain in 2008. He was separately jailed in Britain in 1999 for possessing child pornography.

The scandal has horrified Britain with revelations that Savile cajoled and coerced vulnerable teens into having sex with him in his car, in his camper van, and even in dingy dressing rooms on BBC premises.

Police have said that though the majority of cases related to Savile alone, some involved the entertainer and other, unidentified suspects. In addition, some potential victims who reported abuse by Savile also told police about separate allegations against unidentified men that did not involve the BBC host.

On Sunday, the chairman of the BBC Trust said he was committed to finding out the true scale of the scandal to save the broadcaster's reputation, which has been tarnished by allegations that it did not reveal all it knew about the allegations against Savile.

"Can it really be the case that no one knew what he was doing? Did some turn a blind eye to criminality? Did some prefer not to follow up their suspicions because of this criminal's popularity and place in the schedules?" Chris Patten wrote in The Mail on Sunday.

The BBC has set up an independent inquiry into the corporation's culture and practices in the years Savile worked there. It also launched a separate inquiry into whether its journalists dropped an investigation into the allegations.

Associated Press

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Dot Earth Blog: Lessons from Sandy, a brewing superstorm

Oct. 27, 11:36 p.m. | Updated |
Federal weather forecasters don?t like to overstate things. So even when they say things that are utterly chilling, they say it this way:

?THE DETERMINISTIC GUIDANCE (PARTICULARLY THE 00 UTC ECMWF) SHOW PRESSURE SOLUTIONS WELL BEYOND WHAT HAS EVER BEEN OBSERVED NEAR THE NEW JERSEY/NEW YORK COAST (EVEN EXCEEDING THE 1938 LONG ISLAND EXPRESS HURRICANE)?

That?s an excerpt from the latest extended forecast from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the superstorm that nearly all computer simulations see developing in a few days as the remains of Hurricane Sandy ? which has already killed at least 21 people in the Caribbean ? collide over the East Coast with a cold front sweeping in from the west. (Here?s an interactive map of the storm track.)

I can?t possibly track all the details, given the breadth of my beat (and I will be busy battening down given how other recent flooding storms have affected my part of the Hudson Valley.)

But I can point you to some great guides, if you live in the affected region: There are others, but I find particular value in the analysis offered by Brian McNoldy and Jason Samenow of the Washington Post?s Capital Weather Gang (Samenow led me to that forecast above), as well as?Andrew Freedman at Climate Central and Eric Holthaus of The Wall Street Journal.

This is also a good time to pause and consider the astonishing power of the forecasting tools and intellectual capacity that the United States and Europe have invested in in recent decades ? and the importance of sustaining and expanding the human capacity to observe and understand this turbulent, fast-changing planet.

Given our tendency toward short-termism, it?s always a tough sell, whether in Congress or a town council ? to push for investing in infrastructure ? whether it?s better supercomputers and new satellites or flood-worthy roads. But it?s worth pushing.

While I hope the long lead time in this forecast demonstrates the merits of such unsexy investments, the value is only there if people respond effectively to improving warnings. Given how communities often fail to get out of harm?s way, particularly in how and where they build (see Nicholas Pinter here), that means there?s plenty of work to do on better communication and education, as well.

2:33 p.m. |Update

I hope you?ll read and pass around this article by John Cushman: ?Aging Satellite Fleet May Mean Gaps in Storm Forecasts.?

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october 27th, 2012 6:00am pst - One Pretty Thing - DIY craft tutorials

Make it yourself food, cupcake, drink and cocktail tutorials and how-tos for Halloween! Looking for more Halloween food tutorials? Check out all the other fantastic projects from the previous Halloween food roundups!


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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Squire Tech Solutions Announces Mobile Responder 600 ...


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Squire Tech Solutions, leading tactical satellite service provider and integrated mobile response equipment manufacturer, announced immediate availability of the Squire Tech Solutions Mobile Responder 600 communications package. MR-600 enables government, corporate, and other mobile operations to auto-connect in under 3 minutes data, digital phones, intercom, managed phone switch, virtual private networks (VPN), long range wireless access point, and extend enterprise networks virtually anywhere.

Since 2004 Squire Tech has been dedicated to changing the satellite industry from merely selling satellite radio frequencies to delivering industry specific, warranted, tested, and most importantly, reliable turnkey solutions. Our objective is clear; create packages that work without the customer having to over-think or be concerned about connectivity. With this Mobile Responder 600 satellite solution, we extend those capabilities to include a very robust phone system. stated Mark Davison, president of Squire Tech Solutions.

The Mobile Responder 600 offers a flexible design, providing immediate deployable two button satellite communications infrastructure for small vehicles, flat trailers, pCom

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First year student perspective - Center for Human Resources and ...

First-year students are about a month and a half away from finishing up their initial semester in pursuit of the M-HRIR degree. Currently they're all enrolled in three classes: Business Principles for the HR Professional (professor Avner Ben-Ner), Staffing, Training and Development (professor Theresa Glomb), and Using Data and Metrics in Human Resources and Industrial Relations (professor Colleen Manchester). First-years just finished up two midterms this week, so here's a snapshot of what's going on in each class.

Business Principles: The core tenets of this class -- which overlaps microeconomics with business theory -- are presently revolving around different models of economic competition (perfect vs. monopoly, etc.) The main group project taking place is a series of corporate profiles; there are 14 companies being researched in all, ranging from bar/restaurant chains (Buffalo Wild Wings) to Twin Cities companies (EcoLab) to major e-commerce players (Amazon) to global giants such as Sony and NIKE. So far, the three projects have been (a) a basic study of the history of the organization, (b) a SWOT/value chain analysis, and (c) a breakdown of the corporate governance in place. Students work in teams of four-six to gather the information and organize it effectively, while also underlying and explaining all the essential business concepts. The next assignment actually focuses on the marketing and finance (two core MBA tracks) of the company; this process is a decided advantage of the HRIR program being housed within the Carlson School of Management.

Staffing, Training and Development: Students just finished the staffing/recruiting/legal implications section of the course, and are transitioning to the training and development section. Currently, they're involved in a major two-part staffing simulation project -- the goal is to hire three front desk managers for a luxury hotel chain, and teams of five to six students must make decisions about selection budget, processes, tests and evaluations used, and much more. The simulation (designed by a third party retailer) is effective enough that it can adjust the program on the fly and present business challenges (unexpected ones) to the participants. It's an interesting parallel to the on-campus recruiting processes that are also going on right now -- students are seeing the limitations of reviewing 60+ resumes in a short amount of time, and how decisions end up being made.

Data and Metrics: In this class, students just transitioned from descriptive statistics to inferential statistics; their next large project involves computing z-scores and p-scores to determine statistical significant of certain business data. On November 14, groups from Staffing and Data and Metrics will be combined to work on a live business case from Microsoft; the details of the case aren't 100 percent yet, but it will be taking four hours on the day of and two weeks to create a final report from the results, so it should be an excellent test of business acumen and thinking creatively about a problem in a short amount of time.

Ted Bauer, 1st Year MA-HRIR Student

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Children and Homecoming - Military Family

children and homecomingThe homecoming of a service member is a major change for the children in a household. They have grown physically, emotionally, and socially during the deployment. They are not as skilled at coping with their stress because they have little life experience. As a result, they may become firmly attached to the returning parent wanting their undivided attention or they may seem distant, withdrawn or seem that they just don?t care. There will be a readjustment period (typically four to six weeks) for the entire family. You can greatly enhance your family?s reunion by developing realistic expectations of how your child will respond to the service member?s return based upon the child?s age. Children are developing individuals who change rapidly in their thoughts and behavior. What you can generally expect of different ages, and how you can improve the reunion process with your children is discussed below.

Infants (Birth to 1 year):

As painful as it might be to consider, do not expect an infant to recognize the parent who has returned from a long deployment. Infants have not yet developed a great ability to remember people and events. They may cry, fuss, or pull away when held by the deployed person. Again, go slow. The infant will warm up at his or her own pace.

Toddlers (1 to 3 years):

A typical toddler response would be to hide from the newly returned parent, to cling to his/her primary caregiver, cry, and perhaps regress in potty training. Give your child space and time to warm up to the returning parent. It helps for the deployed parent to sit at eye level with your child and talk with him/her. A gentle offer by the parent to play with the toddler may be helpful, but do not force the issue. Also, the child may have a clearer memory of the deployed parent if the stay behind caregiver frequently showed him/ her pictures of the military member and said ?Daddy? or ?Mommy,? as the case may be. This is helpful because for children at this age, the old adage ?out of sight, out of mind? aptly applies.

Preschoolers (3-5 years):

Children in this age range can tend to think that the world revolves around them. It is not uncommon for your preschooler to think that he or she somehow made their parent go away, or that the parent left because he or she no longer cared about the child. Keeping this in mind, the child may feel abandoned or guilty. They may also express anger and test limits to see if familiar rules still apply. In order to promote the reunion process, it is important for the parent to accept the child?s feelings and focus on rewarding good behavior. Additionally, the returning parent should support the other parent?s rule enforcement but also be careful about stepping into an authoritative role too quickly.

School Age (5-12 years):

In this age range, children are more likely to give returning parents a warm reception, especially if their relationship was strong before the deployment. The child will probably try to monopolize the service member?s attention by showing off accomplishments and hobby items. If their relationship was strained before the deployment, the child may fear that the deployed parent may punish them for misbehavior during deployment. This thought process can lead the child to be shy and withdrawn at first. It is good for the returning parent to be friendly and show interest in what the child has done in their absence, while praising the child for their accomplishments.

Adolescent (13-18 years):

Adolescents can have mood swings? one moment they are solving problems in a reasonable and logical way and the next may be reacting in a purely emotional fashion. So, your adolescent?s reaction to your return may be characterized by mixed emotions. Like the school age child, your adolescent will likely be very excited to see the deployed parent again, if the relationship was good-natured prior to the deployment. Sometimes, however, adolescents are reserved to publicly express their emotions and may be more concerned about acting ?cool? in front of their peers. Adolescents tend to be very sensitive about being unfavorably judged or criticized. With this in mind, be sure to make time to discuss with your adolescent what is going on in his/her life as well as what you?ve experienced. As with sons and daughters of any age, it?s critical to give your adolescent some of each parent?s undivided pleasant attention.

Single Parents

If you are a single parent in the military, there are a few additional issues to consider. If you?re a custodial parent, your children have probably been living with someone else for several months. The bond between this caregiver and your children has strengthened. Your child?s increased bond and loyalty to their caregiver may be painful for you, but go slow. Focus on communicating both with the caregiver and your children, and recognize that you and your children will need to adapt to living with each other again. Your children have been living with someone else who probably had different rules and procedures compared to your own household. Give yourself and your children adequate time to ?shift gears?. The adjustment period can be awkward, but it is helpful to involve the caregiver with the transition.

Since your children have lived with some different family rules and procedures, take time to compare with them the rules of your home. As you?re doing this, seek their input regarding how they would prefer life at home. They should feel included in the process of re-establishing the structure and tone of their home environment.

If you are a non-custodial parent, your children?s living conditions were probably not altered by your deployment. However, your visits with the children have been curtailed. As you re-establish these visits, remember that you and your children have grown and you will need to take time to get reacquainted.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

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As we have learned, at present the traffic construction relies mainly on highway and railway construction. Whether it is highway or general rural roads and arterial roads or yard construction, artificial sand is an indispensable basic material. Thus, it can be seen that the western region artificial sand market development will usher in unprecedented prosperity. Western region infrastructure construction needs a large amount of cement, sand and other building material aggregate. This brings the new market for jaw crusher, hammer crusher and other equipment producing cement, sand aggregate, etc. Of course, crusher and other equipment will be widely used in the water conservancy and electricity in the great western development process. And with the progress of science and technology, the application fields of crusher in the development of the western region will be more and more. Traffic development of the western region is the guarantee of sustainable, rapid social development. The rapid development has the significant practical significance for infrastructure construction, industrial structure adjustment, social economy development, urbanization and marketization of western region.

In recent years, China?s construction industry keeps rapid development, construction business gross expands ceaselessly. The rapid growth of general contracting business and contract volume put forward higher requirements the construction equipment. Among which, sand and stone dedicated production lines for the production of building, highway, railway and other industries, that is known as sand production line, is becoming more and more important in the process of engineering construction. Material for sand making production line are quartz stone and limestone; sand making production line production process is basically the same, mainly composed ofbelt conveyor, concentration of electronic equipment components, etc. In order to meet customer?s different processing needs, it can be equipped with dust removal equipment. Finished product granularity can be combined and classified according to user demand; in order to protect environment, it can be equipped with auxiliary dust removing device.As the professional manufacturer of complete sets of mining machinery, such as china cone crusher, Henan Hongxing is always doing the best in products and service.

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Oil and globalization fuel Al Qaeda terror network (+video)

Mitt Romney has repeatedly argued that even though Osama Bin Laden is dead, Al Qaeda remains a major threat to American security, while President Obama has described Al Qaeda?s leadership as decimated. Who?s right?

In fact, they are both right. Al Qaeda?s leadership is decimated, and the Obama team deserves much credit. But Al Qaeda has also splintered into affiliates and offshoots that keep bouncing back, like a Whac-A-Mole game. Al Qaeda can be repressed as Mr. Obama suggests, but it is hard for any US president to completely eliminate the terror network ? and Americans should know why.

A large part of the reason is oil and globalization.

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Many people have commented on the link between oil and terror, but what is more interesting is how oil and globalization have worked together to abet terrorism. The overlapping oil and globalization eras have produced circumstances that helped create and now still buttress the Al Qaeda phenomenon.

In the Afghanistan war of the 1980s, both private and government monies from oil-rich Persian Gulf countries supported Osama bin Laden?s ?Afghan Arabs,? including their recruitment, housing, communications, and training when they were fighting the invading Russians. These revenues also helped bolster the Taliban, which housed Al Qaeda and still cooperates with it, and helped Pakistan build nuclear capabilities that both Mr. Romney and Obama believe could be stolen by terrorists and militants.

But Al Qaeda could not have become a transnational force without the interconnectedness of globalization. Cultural and economic globalization gave Al Qaeda access to the global highways and side roads it needed to spread around the world, set up shop in dozens of countries, communicate at far distances, and plan large-scale terrorist attacks.

These pathways continue to allow Al Qaeda?s affiliates and offshoots to play the Whac-A-Mole game, popping up here and there. Oil money remains vital to their operations. While it?s too soon to tell how bin Laden?s death will affect such funding, it would be foolish to assume that it will end.

Terrorists also rail against US support for oil-rich regimes such as Saudi Arabia, and mistakenly believe that America wants to ?steal? Middle East oil. In fact, the United States and its firms have barely even cashed in on oil contracts in Iraq.

Meanwhile, worldwide communications help terrorists convey their negative narrative. According to numerous polls of Muslim countries over the past decade, Al Qaeda?s message has weakened substantially, but it still carries weight with millions of people.

While oil has fueled terrorism, globalization has offered terrorists vulnerable outlets for attack. In a more connected world, just a handful of angry men can wreak havoc, which is partly what makes the Al Qaeda threat so hard to eliminate.

In previous centuries, the September 11 attacks would have hardly been known to the world; but in 2001 they hit a key node of a globalized world ? New York ? producing ripple effects around the world. All financial markets, including oil, were affected. Big businesses felt the shock waves. That kind of impact could never have been felt in a much less globalized world.

Today's communications and the 24/7 media age also allow terrorists to seem more threatening than their capabilities suggest. We can all watch terror threats unfold in real time. Even a hapless underwear or shoe bomber can stir global fear. And a small, well planned attack such as the one that recently killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya gains global coverage.

Yes, Al Qaeda?s leadership has been decimated, making a massive 9/11 attack far harder to achieve. Obama is right. But Al Qaeda?s bankrupt ideas live on and are communicated to millions, partly via affiliates and offshoots. Oil has helped fuel and motivate them, while globalization has allowed them to exploit that fuel to do things that otherwise would be more difficult and costly.

Fortunately, there are ways to combat terror networks. This work starts with targeting the circumstances and causes that fuel terrorism in the first place. For one, the next American president must work to decrease world oil dependence by investing in renewable energy.

OPINION: 8 steps to US energy security

But terrorism, while fueled by oil and aided by globalization, has other causes as well. America can also take the lead, with its Arab, European, and Asian allies, to support economic development in the Middle East as an anti-terrorism strategy. The US must also continue to help these nations fight poverty, improve employment opportunities, develop civil society, and broaden education.

The next administration will need to remain vigilant in fighting terrorism, but the best defense in this case is a strong offense.

Steve Yetiv is a professor of political science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. He is the author of ?The Petroleum Triangle: Oil, Globalization, and Terror? and ?The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf.?

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How Food Became Technology [Excerpt]

Patent protection helped transform agriculture into agribusiness


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Editor's Note: Excerpted from Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food, by Frederick Kaufman. With permission from the publisher, Wiley. Copyright ? Frederick Kaufman, 2012.

Once upon a time, nymphs, sprites, and spirits ruled every?cavern, tree, field, and brook, and a meal was plucked from?a bush, scooped from the mud, or carved from the carcass?of some unfortunate creature. Then everything changed.?A tribe of infidels and heretics decided it could no longer?leave something as important as breakfast, lunch, and dinner?to the vagaries of chance and the whimsy of the gods. These revolutionaries drained lakes, rerouted rivers, chopped down?forests, and slashed straight into the guts of Mother Earth.?They were the first farmers.

Ten thousand years of meddling with food has not made the?meddling any more popular, even if the history of civilization?has hinged on the science of food. Assyrian bas-reliefs and?Sumerian cuneiform tablets depict artificial pollination?and manipulating the sex life of plants was one of the first?technological feats that enabled our world of abundant fruits?and vegetables, meat, bread, and chocolate.

What set the earliest agriculturalists apart from the even?earlier hunter-gatherers? As the first farmers denuded nature,?hoarded seeds, and engineered crops, they most likely appeared?to be mad scientists, coaxing mutant monsters from the black?earth. Of course, we no longer think very much about the fact?that almost everything we eat has been?domesticated and that?domestication implies a history of human intervention. In fact,?most people are unaware that the typical supermarket and?green market varieties of apples, oranges, lettuce, and raspberries are not at all the same as their wild cousins.

Domesticated fruits and vegetables are generally larger?than their undomesticated counterparts. They are sweeter and?more aromatic. Compared to their great-great-grandparents,?modern fruits and vegetables have lost their fuzz, their fiber,?their thorns, and their puberty. A modern tomato?heirloom,?organic, process, vine-ripened, or otherwise?bears little?resemblance to its puny, sour, undomesticated relations that?sprout in the Peruvian Andes. Tomato breeding has changed?tomatoes down to the DNA, and the successful varieties that?have found their way into our supermarket carts have been?cloned and cloned again.

The red jungle fowl of Thailand eventually became a Perdue chicken. The extinct aurochs of the Fertile Crescent?eventually became Holstein cows. The primeval apples of?Kazakhstan eventually became Gala and Red Delicious.?Ancient tillers of the earth needed at least 300 years to domesticate corn and more than 1,000 years to?domesticate wheat. But no one really knows how weeds first?became crops.

Did mongrel grains serendipitously meld together and?sprout from the sewage dumps of sedentary fishing tribes?(a current theory), or was the domestication of wheat grasses,?pomegranates, and fig trees a willful act of genius? The most?ancient of these technologies created new forms of life. And?our fear of Frankenstein predates Mary Shelley's monster.??In? The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare laced Perdita's?voice with anxiety and disgust as she condemned "Nature's?bastards," new varieties of flowers created by Elizabethan?methods of artificial pollination. Not to worry, argued Polixenes, for "Nature is made better by no mean / But Nature?makes that mean; so over that art / Which you say adds to?Nature, is an art / That Nature makes."

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

MBA Prognosis: Slow Crawl to Health with Potential Busted Knees ...

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HousingWire reports in the wake of the financial meltdown, the nation gained 4.8 million renters in the last six years while losing 1.7 million owner households, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). In the housing finance sector, the MBA predicts mortgage originations will hit $1.7 trillion in 2012, an increase from $1.4 trillion in 2011, but will fall to $1.3 trillion in 2013 and $1.1 trillion the following year. Additionally, as long as the fiscal cliff is avoided by Congress next year, MBA anticipates GDP (gross domestic product) will rise from 1.6 percent this year to two percent in 2013, and forecasts existing home sales will increase to 4.78 million in 2013, up from 4.6 million this year. Noting the harm a tax increase could foster, MBA chief economist Jay Brinkman tells MHProNews: ?We believe that the entire package of tax increases and spending cuts, if left unaltered, would cut 3.5 to 4 percentage points from our growth forecast.? One other contingency: If the finalized Qualified Mortgage Rule (QRM) does not give lenders a safety valve it could have adverse effects. Says Debra Still, new MBA Chairwoman: ?The bottom line is if there is conflict in rulemaking and policy, it?s the consumer who will ultimately be negatively impacted and credit will be tighter.?

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No One Will Touch Your Colored Pencils Stored in a Gutted Fish

Worried about your schoolyard chums pinching your colored pencils (you know, those pre-touchscreen graphite writing implements) from your desk? By stashing them in a dead gutted mackerel you're all but guaranteed no one's going to lay a finger on them. And probably guaranteed a trip to the principal's office too. More »


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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

In debate, Romney reiterates Russia is 'geopolitical foe' of US

In last night's US presidential debate on foreign policy, Mitt Romney once again stated his belief that Russia was a "geopolitical foe" of the US, echoing similar comments he made in March of this year.

When he has accused Russia of being a "geopolitical foe" in the past, Moscow reacted with confusion and irritation, but little expectation of a change in US-Russian relations.

Mr. Romney first called Russia "our No. 1 geopolitical foe" during the Republican primaries in March, soon after an open mic caught President Barack Obama asking Russia's then-President Dmitry Medvedev to dial back their objections to US missile defense plans until after the November elections, when "I'll have more flexibility."

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Although ostensibly a political attack against Mr. Obama, Romney's words caused puzzled concern in Moscow, the Monitor's Fred Weir reported.

A poll carried out by the independent, Moscow-based Levada Center earlier this month found that 42 percent of Russians think relations with the US are either "friendly," "good neighborly," or "normal and peaceful," while 47 percent think they are "cool" or "tense," and just 4 percent said they are "hostile."

"I can't see Romney's remarks as anything but an emotional outburst," says Gennady Gudkov, deputy chair of the State Duma's security committee. "That just doesn't correspond to the actual state of relations between our countries at all. Not only is Russia not a country that's hostile to the US, we are actually allies in many geopolitical issues. Russians may sometimes verbally abuse America, but we tend to keep our money over there, both privately and in the form of our national currency reserves, which are held largely in US dollars?. In fact, Russia is far more interested in our relations with the US than the Americans are in their ties with Russia." ...

"Regarding ideological clich?s, every time this or that side uses phrases like 'enemy No. 1,' this always alarms me, this smells of Hollywood and certain times [of the past]," Medvedev said. "I would recommend all US presidential candidates ... do two things. First, when phrasing their position, one needs to use one's head, one's good reason, which would not do harm to a presidential candidate."

When Romney repeated his criticism of Russia during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in August ? he said that "Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and [Vladimir Putin, who was sworn in as Russia's president in May,] will see a little less flexibility and more backbone" ? it again spurred a negative response from Moscow, Weir reported.

"Once again Russia's on America's list of adversaries," shouted Thursday's headline in the independent Moscow daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The online newspaper Pravda.ru, which also publishes in English, warned that "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan promise Russia Republican hell... the official Republican candidates for president and vice-president support the radicalization of the country's foreign policies, particularly about the relations with Russia."

But again, experts told Weir they found it unlikely that Romney would follow through with his tougher talk.

"Romney may be talking a cold war line, as if he pines for the clarity of those days, but there's little substance in it. In fact, the main thing about Romney is that he seems to lack any vision at all," says [Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a leading Moscow foreign policy journal]. "He never dealt much with foreign policy, never had anything to do with Russia. If he wins, the biggest problem will probably be a long period of confusion while he tries to figure out what he actually wants to do." ...

Russian experts say there's no appetite in Moscow for a new cold war, and though the establishment would probably prefer to see Obama return in November, they could probably find a modus vivendi with a President Romney.

"Despite Obama's 'reset', you can't say we've developed a fully normalized relationship between Russia and the US. Things remain quite complicated," says Sergei Strokan, a foreign affairs columnist with the Moscow daily Kommersant. "There are things we need to talk about, such as strategic stability and Afghanistan, and one has the impression that any US administration will continue those discussions. And there are things we disagree about, and that acrimonious dialogue will probably continue no matter who is elected president in November."

Still, there are some signs that Mr. Putin may be taking Romney at his word. After Romney once again repeated his "geopolitical adversary" position on Russia in September, Putin said in the press that he was "grateful to [Romney] for formulating his stance so clearly, because he has once again proven the correctness of our approach to missile defense problems," referring to Russian resistance to a US plan to install anti-missile systems in Europe. The US says such systems are a defense against Iranian rockets, but the Kremlin has long suspected that they are actually meant to target Russian missiles.

"The most important thing for us is that even if he doesn't win now, he or a person with similar views may come to power in four years. We must take that into consideration while dealing with security issues for a long perspective," Putin said. But he noted that he would still work with a Republican administration.

"That Mr. Romney considers us to be enemy No. 1 and apparently has bad feelings about Russia is a minus, but, considering that he expresses himself bluntly, openly and clearly, means that he is an open and sincere man, which is a plus," Putin said. "If he is elected president of the US, certainly we will work with him as an elected head of state."

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