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Royal Welsh soldiers march through Cardigan: Troops from C Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh (Royal Regiment of Wales) were clapped and cheered as they marched through the town, led by the Band of the Prince of Wales Division, Shenkin the Regimental Goat and the Goat Major Sergeant David Joseph. The soldiers were exercising the Freedom of Ceredigion, which was conferred on the The Royal Welsh (made up of 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh) in April 2009.

Councillor Mark Cole, chairman of Ceredigion County Council, addressed the soldiers: "We stand side by side with you and your loved ones. Today is a special day for us because we have a unique opportunity to say thank you. Thank you all for your dedication, commitment and service to our country."

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Where are the gay voices in ads for gay marriage?

Four states will vote on gay marriage this November, but gay people speaking for themselves have been?noticeably?absent from the TV ads promoting gay marriage.?

By Patrick Condon,?Associated Press / September 26, 2012

John, (l.), and Kim Canny, Catholic Republicans from Savage, Minn., in a commercial in which they say they oppose a proposed constitutional amendment this November that would ban gay marriage. Some gay activists question an ad strategy that rarely puts actual gay people on camera, saying it contradicts their philosophy of openness and hasn?t worked.

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Each of these ads ran recently in states with gay marriage issues on the November ballot. What's missing? Gay people speaking for themselves.

Four states are voting on gay marriage this fall, and gay rights groups are pouring tens of millions of dollars into key TV markets in hopes of breaking a 32-state losing streak on the issue. But even as gay people and same-sex relationships gain acceptance through pop culture staples such as "Modern Family" and "Glee," the idea is still seen as dicey by media strategists involved in the ballot campaigns, resulting in ads that usually involve only straight people talking about the issue.

The decision to keep gays in the background has been widely noticed in the gay community and debated on gay-oriented blogs, with some activists complaining that the move contradicts the central message of the gay rights movement for a number of years.

"If we don't show ourselves, people aren't going to get comfortable with who we are," said Wayne Besen, director of Vermont-based gay rights group "Truth Wins Out," one of many that presses gays to live openly with pride in who they are.

But others counsel deference for the complexities of public messaging, pointing out that the ads are designed to speak to the fears and values of the heterosexual majority, whose vote will decide the issue.

"The moderate tough guys we need to flip to win a couple of these races are still the ones who say that gays are gross," said Andy Szekeres, a Denver-based fundraising consultant who has worked on several state campaigns and had access to focus group data. "Pushing people to an uncomfortable place, it's something you can't do in a TV ad," said Szekeres, who is gay.

The definition of marriage is on the ballot this fall in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Beyond those, according to the Human Rights Campaign, 37 states prohibit gay marriage while six and the District of Columbia permit it. Gay activists and their allies are hoping that any wins in November would throw new momentum their way at a time when polls nationwide have shown growing acceptance for gay marriage.

Six of the seven ads broadcast in the contested states this year have featured only straight people talking about the issue. One ad, which played only in Maine, included a firefighter who talked of being accepted by his colleagues. The ads, along with most that ran in the 2008 campaign in California and in other past statewide races, rely on heterosexual family members and friends of gays talking about how the inability to marry has deprived their loved ones of rights and opportunities they should have.

Gay marriage opponents, who also have well-funded campaigns in the four states, plan to begin airing ads soon. In recent interviews, an organizer said the key message is aimed at parents, suggesting legal recognition could result in their kids being told in school and in society that it's OK to be gay.

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Homecoming prank: Girl nominated for queen as joke has comeuppance (+video)

A homecoming prank played on Michigan high school sophomore Whitney Kropp, is turned around. Her comeuppance is a community rallying to give her free dinner, photos, hair and nail design, shoes, gown, and tiara for Saturday's dance.

By Associated Press / September 26, 2012

WXYZ-TV in Detroit reports on how the community of West Branch, Michigan is rallying around Whitney Kropp.

A Michigan community is trying to make things right after a 16-year-old girl was named to a high school homecoming court as part of an apparent?prank.

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Whitney?Kropp told WNEM-TV she felt betrayed after some of her classmates at West Branch's Ogemaw Heights High School suggested that her selection announced this month at the 800-student school was a joke. She said she had been picked on in the past, but it?intensified afterward.

"I thought I wasn't worthy at Ogemaw Heights at all," she said.

As word spread, however, community members rallied behind the sophomore. She's expected to appear at Friday's homecoming football game. And The Detroit News reports businesses will buy her dinner, take her photo, fix her hair and nails, and dress her in a gown, shoes, and a tiara for Saturday's dance.

(In a similar incident in Pacifc, Mo., the motives of fellow students who voted into a highs school homecoming court a teen with attention deficit disorder and conditions that have her lagging soccially and without friends are being questions. Rickie and Tonya Tanner wanted to feel excitement when their 15-year-old came home with the news she'd been chosen for the homecoming court, but they say, deep down, they felt something wasn't right. Administrators at?Pacific High School in the Meramec Valley School District in Missouri are now investigating? the intentions of sophomores who voted for homecoming court members.)

Whitney's mother Bernice Kropp said the support has helped make a bad situation right in the community about 140 miles northwest of Detroit.

"This was something that was really awful, could have ended awful, and because so many people came together, it just turned right around," she said.

Jamie Kline, started a Facebook support page, which drew hundreds of messages of encouragement. Shannon Champagne, and another beauty salon worker offered their services and asked other businesses to do the same. And Donny Winter, an Ogemaw Heights graduate, made a YouTube video to show his support.

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"Bullying cannot be resolved by silence, it has to be resolved by actually stating what's happening and actually saying it's wrong," Winter said.

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MPs' call to halt Arctic drilling

19 September 2012 Last updated at 21:21 ET By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst

A committee of MPs has called for a halt on drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic until safety is improved.

They say current techniques for dealing with any spill do not inspire confidence.

The Environmental Audit Committee fears that a spill could have caused unprecedented environmental damage.

The MPs want to see a standard pan-Arctic spill response standard, unlimited liability for firms and an Arctic environmental sanctuary.

But the UK has no power over the Arctic - and Arctic states are under pressure to cash in on oil and gas.

The British government has observer status on the Arctic Council - the grouping of Arctic states that discusses Arctic issues.

The committee wants the UK to try to use its influence to improve environmental safeguards but in evidence the MPs heard, that governance of the region was fragmented and weak.

The BBC understands that relations between Russia and the other Arctic nations were particularly problematic.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which deals with Arctic issues for the UK, told BBC News: "The Arctic is changing rapidly, primarily as a result of climate change. It is not the Arctic of 20 years ago and it will likely be different again 20 years from now.

"The Government therefore welcomes the useful and timely Environmental Audit Committee's report into protecting the Arctic that explored many of the challenges and opportunities facing the Arctic.

"The Government is carefully considering the findings and recommendations made by the Committee and will formally respond in due course."

Sweden, currently in the chair of the Arctic Council, declined to comment on the moratorium proposal.

Put on ice

Arctic drilling has been happening since the 1920s, but it has become much more contentious as BP's Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico dominated the headlines whilst firms were scrambling to expand production in the far North.

BP's Arctic ambitions are temporarily on hold, but Shell has reputedly invested almost $5bn in its Arctic projects. It suffered a major setback at the weekend after a huge containment dome designed to corral any Arctic spill broke down under trials. Shell abandoned drilling for the winter.

The cost of extra safety investment may slow Arctic drilling for a while, especially as we are in a glut of cheap shale gas. But the committee heard that Lloyds estimated that investment in the Arctic could potentially reach $100bn or more over the next 10 years.

The committee heard from several witnesses that safety standards were inadequate. Prof Peter Wadhams, an Arctic ice expert from Cambridge University told them: "If they can't cap the blowout off, or drill a relief well before the winter, the blowout will operate right through the winter months, with oil and gas coming up under the ice.

"The oil coats the bottom of the ice, and if the ice is moving, which is often at about 10km a day, it acts like a great sheet of moving blotting paper, absorbing the oil coming up under it, and carrying it away downstream.

"You will have a trail of oiled ice floes 1,000 kilometres or more in length covering a whole swathe of the Arctic. The oil disappears into the interior of each floe, because new ice grows underneath it, so you have an 'oil sandwich' which lasts all through the winter.

"Then the oil rises to the top surface of the ice in the spring and summer and retains its toxicity. By now it is spread thinly around such a huge area that it is very, very difficult to ? get rid of."

BP wouldn't give evidence to the MPs but Shell told them the spill response was adequate.

Coming clean

In fact, the company said that, in some circumstances, Arctic conditions would make it easier to recover oil. It said independent tests in Arctic conditions have shown that ice can slow oil weathering, dampen waves, prevent oil from spreading over large distances, and allow more time to respond.

Shell told MPs that in Alaska available mechanical recovery assets had "a combined capacity that exceeds the worst-case discharge potential of the well we are drilling".

A Scottish-based firm, Cairn Energy, suggested that "sections of oiled ice can be cut out and allow the ice to thaw in a heated warehouse and then separating the oil from its water".

The chair of the Committee, Joan Walley MP, said: "The oil companies should come clean and admit that dealing with an oil spill in the icy extremes of the Arctic would be exceptionally difficult."

"The infrastructure to mount a big clean-up operation is simply not in place and conventional oil spill response techniques have not been proven to work in such severe conditions."

Vicky Wyatt, head of Greenpeace's Arctic campaign, said: "Oil giants like Shell shouldn't be drilling in the fragile and pristine Arctic. By calling for a halt, these MPs have hit the nail on the head. An oil spill in this unique place would be catastrophic for the Arctic."

The committee also highlighted the irony that drilling was eased because the Arctic was already warming much faster than anywhere else on the planet.

Chris Barton, head of international energy security at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), told MPs that "we will still need more and new oil and gas production, and the likelihood is that some of that will come from the Arctic", even "if we hit our 2C (climate change) target".

He acknowledged that "ultimately we are going to need to reduce - if not very largely eliminate -our use of oil but it is not going to happen overnight".

The MPs said: "There appears to be a lack of strategic thinking and policy coherence within Government on this issue, illustrated by its failure to demonstrate how future oil and gas extraction from the Arctic can be reconciled to commitments to limit temperature rises to 2?C. The Government should seek to resolve this matter."

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Six million Americans likely to pay healthcare tax in 2016

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. budget experts raised their forecast on Wednesday of how many Americans will probably have to pay a penalty in 2016 for not buying health insurance to 6 million from 4 million.

The 50 percent increase was likely to draw fire from Republicans on the campaign trail who want to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and who reject the penalty as a government intrusion into the lives of individuals.

But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said some of the increase reflects state opposition to an expansion under the healthcare law of the Medicaid program for the poor, which is most unpopular in states with Republican governors or Republican-majority legislatures.

CBO, which issued its last forecast in April 2010, also attributed the larger number of people facing penalties to a bleaker economic picture that will mean higher unemployment and lower wages and salaries.

There are now 49 million people without health insurance in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Under the Affordable Care Act, better known to the public as "Obamacare," more than 30 million people would become eligible to buy subsidized private insurance or receive Medicaid coverage in 2014.

The law requires most Americans to have some form of health insurance - known as the individual mandate. The law stipulates that those who do not acquire health coverage will face a penalty.

The penalty is scheduled to rise in 2016 to $695 or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is greater. That year is when the law's provisions are expected to operate fully.

The government is expected to collect between $7 billion and $8 billion in revenue from the penalty, which the Supreme Court ruled constitutional as a form of taxation earlier this year.

The CBO projects that 30 million people who are not elderly will still be uninsured in the United States in 2016. But most will not be subject to the penalty because they are illegal immigrants, members of exempted groups including Indian tribes or have very low incomes.

(Reporting by Kim Dixon and David Morgan; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Christopher Wilson and Philip Barbara)

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Unusual symbiosis in marine microorganisms fertilizes ocean by fixing nitrogen

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? Tiny single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria exchange carbon and nitrogen in a mutually beneficial relationship that helps fertilize the oceans

Isotope analysis shows carbon and nitrogen incorporated into cells in a symbiotic partnership. Arrows point to nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial cells associated with the larger photosynthetic host cells. (Image courtesy of Rachel Foster, MPI)

Scientists have discovered an unusual symbiosis between tiny single-celled algae and highly specialized bacteria. Their partnership plays an important role in marine ecosystems, fertilizing the oceans by taking nitrogen from the atmosphere and "fixing" it into a form that other organisms can use.

Details of the symbiosis, published in the September 21 issue of Science, emerged from the investigation of a mysterious nitrogen-fixing microbe with a drastically reduced genome. First detected in 1998 by Jonathan Zehr, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, it now appears to be the most widespread nitrogen-fixing organism in the oceans. The microbe belongs to a group of photosynthetic bacteria known as cyanobacteria, but it lacks the genes needed to carry out photosynthesis and other essential metabolic pathways. Apparently, its association with a photosynthetic host cell makes those genes unnecessary.

"The cyanobacterium is a nitrogen-fixer, so it provides nitrogen to the host cell, and the host cell provides carbon to the cyanobacterium, which is lacking the metabolic machinery to get its own carbon," said Anne Thompson, a lead author of the paper and postdoctoral researcher in Zehr's lab at UC Santa Cruz. Rachel Foster of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is the other lead author and contributed equally to this work.

Although the partners in the symbiosis have not been grown in the laboratory, Zehr's team and their collaborators have been able to characterize both partners using cell sorting, gene sequencing, and other techniques. The host cell is a type of single-celled algae in a class known as "prymnesiophytes," which are found throughout the world's oceans. In seawater samples sorted by flow cytometry, which separates cells by size and color, the host cells were discovered among the "photosynthetic picoeukaryotes," a mixed population of tiny single-celled algae in the 1- to 3-micron size range.

"Aside from the importance of nitrogen fixation in marine ecosystems, this is such an interesting symbiosis from an evolutionary perspective, because it can be seen as analogous to an early stage in the endosymbiosis that led to chloroplasts," Zehr said.

Chloroplasts, which carry out photosynthesis in all plants, evolved from symbiotic cyanobacteria that eventually became incorporated into their host cells in a process known as endosymbiosis. In the newly discovered nitrogen-fixing partnership, the cyanobacteria are mostly seen in an indentation at one end of the host cell.

"At this point, it's unclear exactly how the cyanobacteria are associated with the host cells. It looks like there may be a little groove in the host cell where the cyanobacteria fits," said Thompson. "The association is robust enough to go through the cell sorter and other preparations, but delicate enough that they separate if they're filtered or frozen and thawed."

In previous work, Zehr's team had studied the cyanobacteria, which they called UCYN-A, in samples processed at sea and brought back to the lab for cell sorting and genetic analysis. Despite being unable to grow it in the lab, they were able to sequence the microbe's complete genome and discover that it was missing the genes for several key metabolic pathways, suggesting that it might live in association with another organism. Thompson said researchers were only able to see the symbiotic partners together when they sorted freshly collected seawater samples on board the ship.

"Our collaborators at the University of Hawaii, Dave Karl and Ken Doggett, put a cell sorter into a portable laboratory, like a lab in a box, so now we can take the machine to sea and sort cells that minutes before were in their natural environment. That's how we found the association," Thompson said.

The exchange of carbon and nitrogen between the two partners was demonstrated using powerful analytic techniques developed and carried out by collaborators from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. Seawater samples were incubated with stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen, then the cells in the samples were sorted by flow cytometry. A highly specific genetic probe was used to identify the UCYN-A cells among the "photosynthetic picoeukaryotes" separated out by the cell sorting equipment. Another key technique was nanometer-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS), which helped identify the associated cells and allowed researchers to quantify and image the carbon and nitrogen isotopes within individual cells.

"This combination of techniques is a great tool for microbiology because it couples phylogenetic identification with metabolic analysis," Thompson said. "We could see that the cyanobacteria were fixing the labeled nitrogen and transferring it to the host cells."

Genetic analysis of the host cell indicates its closest relative is the species Braarudosphaera bigelowii. In many species of prymnesiophytes, including B. bigelowii, the cells form external calcified plates, suggesting that the host cell in the symbiosis may have plates that are easily dislodged during processing of seawater samples. "That would be important, because cells with plates sink faster than other organisms, so the carbon they fix could end up being transported to the deep sea or the seafloor," Zehr said.

Zehr noted that it is very difficult to estimate the contribution of this symbiosis to global carbon and nitrogen cycles. Other algae are more abundant and probably much more important in terms of oceanic carbon fixation than the algal host in this symbiosis. But the cyanobacterial partner probably makes a significant contribution to global nitrogen fixation in the oceans, he said.

"Planktonic symbioses are very understudied and difficult to study, as the associations are often fragile and difficult to keep intact," said Foster. "Here we used multiple tools and kept the relationship integrity, and also identified one of the first examples of a seemingly mutualistic partnership present in the plankton."

Zehr has named the cyanobacterium Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa. ("Candidatus" indicates a candidate or provisional name, since the rules of bacteriological nomenclature require that a microbe be grown in culture before the name becomes official.)

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Dyzplastic previews Series 03 pt 6 of their Android collectibles

Well, Dyzplastic is still churning out their oh so lovable Android collectibles. Today they released the design of part 6 in their third series of collectibles.The latest collectible features a "cry-on" design which is obviously a play off of Krylon spray paint. If you missed out on parts 1-5 be sure to check them out in Dyzplastic's September archive.

Back to the "cry-on" design, it's more than just a pretty paint job. I know I let out a chuckle when I saw its hidden "feature." Check out the video after the break and see for yourself.

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The Two Biggest Myths About QE3

Everyone should be happy QE3 is here

Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages.

The third round of quantitative easing announced by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week gives the economy a great chance of strengthening in the months to come. But predictably, new moves from the Fed gave rise to new criticisms?contradictory ones, one generally coming from the right and one generally coming from the left?that highlight the two biggest myths about monetary policy around today.

The first is the idea that loose money ?punishes savers,? a myth Mitt Romney himself seemed to subscribe to in remarks made at a fundraiser. He said that ?as the Federal Reserve keeps on trying to stimulate the economy by printing more money there?s a cost to that,? including ?the value of your savings goes down.?

But does a loose money supply actually erode the value of your savings? Rampant inflation certainly destroys the value of savings, but does a small expansion of the money supply? When the Fed increases the money supply?and especially when it pairs such increases with words suggesting it might be willing to tolerate a little bit of extra inflation as the economy recovers?it does erode the value of whatever cash you?re keeping around the house. But people don?t?and shouldn?t?save for retirement by hoarding coins in their sock drawer. You save money in a 401(k) or IRA that owns stocks and bonds, you put money in an interest-bearing bank account, or you purchase individual investment vehicles with a broker or an online service. A little cash lying around the house is convenient, but not an important part of any sensible person?s saving strategy. And a growth-oriented monetary policy doesn?t hurt people saving in normal ways, even if it leads to a somewhat faster pace of inflation, because their return on investment rises even as inflation rises.

Older conservatives are perhaps thinking of the bad old days of the 1970s. During that decade, the consumer price index increased more than 2.5 percent every year. In the second half of the decade, it increased at least 5 percent and as much as 13 percent per year. That?s a whole different scale of inflation from what?s under consideration in current monetary policy. Today the question is whether the rate of increase can be allowed to peep temporarily above 2 percent. That ?70s inflation really did punish savers, and not just because it was high enough to produce serious economic distortions. That?s because those were the days when Regulation Q capped the interest rate banks were allowed to offer on a savings account. This was a nominal cap, not adjusted for inflation, so when the inflation rate got high the real value of the interest rates paid collapsed.

Today?s banking system isn?t like that. Interest rates are set in the market, and consumers have access to a range of savings vehicles such as money market accounts that didn?t exist in the ?70s. If inflation were to rise to 3 or even 5 percent, interest rates would simply rise to compensate as banks competed for customers? money.

For more evidence that loose money doesn?t destroy savings, look what happened to the stock market after the QE3 announcement. There was unmistakable surge. Those who own stocks are also savers. Stocks surge when the economy is thriving. There is a strong, and rational, belief that QE3 will improve the economy overall, which will boost share values.

This brings us to the liberal myth that, as popular progressive blogger and economist Duncan Black put it, the purpose of monetary easing is to goose financial asset prices. It?s true that some economists think the so-called ?portfolio balance effect? (basically, your investments are doing better so you feel richer and spend more) is an important channel for monetary policy, but it?s hardly the key thing. A recession is mostly a drought in investment?both business activity and homebuilding?caused by a mismatch between the amount savers want to save and the amount investors want to invest. The desirability of new investment depends in part on whether you think other people will also be investing. Stimulative monetary policy tries to coordinate expectations around a higher path of investment and growth.

When it works that shows up in the stock market. Share prices aren?t a great long-term indicator for overall economic health because they could go up for either of two reasons. On the one hand, growth might accelerate. On the other hand, the profit share of national income might rise. But in the short term, QE3 can?t do anything to the profit share. The increase in stock prices either reflects pure coincidence or else expectations of faster economic growth. The fact that shares have gone up routinely after each round of Federal Reserve quantitative easing and after each round of stimulus from the European Central Banks suggests it?s not a coincidence. These moves aren?t giveaways to stock owners and they?re not punishing savers either. They?re win-win economic policy that the economy badly needs.

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Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker spotted at FCC and HMV: take one and call Dr. Dre in the morning

The Beats by Dr. Dre badge has usually been attached to headphones and the occasional laptop or smartphone. We've never really seen it attached to dedicated speakers, however, and that's where both an FCC filing and a sighting at UK retailer HMV's online store raise a few eyebrows. The House that Dre Built appears on the edge of launching the Beats Pill, a Bluetooth wireless speaker with four drivers and a shape that more than explains the medicinal name. While we don't know how just much of that signature Beats thump we'll get, we do know from the FCC that the Pill can serve as a speakerphone, carries an aux-in jack and will last for a typical 8.5 hours on its USB-rechargeable lithium-ion battery. There's also signs of a red version of Beats' Mixr headphones coming at the same time. HMV has publicly scoured its pages of any trace of a ship date or price for the Pill, but cached copies point to a £170 ($276) price and a release around September 28th -- not necessarily trustworthy figures, but they may be in the ballpark. Our only question is whether or not we'll get a dose of the Pill in the US.

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Is It Still Called A Vacation if the Kids Are With You? | Toddler Times

Traveling with kids: Fun or torture?

Is a vacation really a vacation if the kids are with you?

You might be getting away, but is that a bad thing if it means schedules are turned upside down and unfamiliar sights, smells, tastes and sounds result in all-too-familiar tantrums?

Or do the benefits of adventure, no distractions and unparalleled quality family time win out in the end?

Here are 5 pros and 5 cons of taking the kids with you on vacation:

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  Con #1: Sleep schedules get turned upside down

  Even if you?re a parent who is not guilty of overscheduling the family when you go on vacation, no one ever seems to get enough rest anyway. Whether you?ve traveled to a different time zone or need to be somewhere early in the morning or later in the evening for a tour or reservation, or the excitement of what lies ahead means the children are simply too excited to fall asleep or sleep in, routines from home go by the wayside, which usually means the number of hours of sleep banked each night also falls down by a few precious and critical hours.

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  Con #2: New food and experiences can mean new kinds of meltdowns

  Thought it was hard to try and get your toddler to try new foods at home? You know, that place where you stock the cupboards and refrigerator and always have back-ups on hand in the event of a total food emergency meltdown?
  Unless you?re staying somewhere with a kitchen and a well-stocked grocery store nearby, you?ll probably spend the bulk of your meals on vacation in restaurants, which means your little ones will be expected to eat what?s put before them and like it and behave when they don?t. Three times a day. Plus snacks.
  Good luck with that.

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  Con #3: Unfamiliarity can breed uncertainty and unease

  Lots of little kids are totally adventurous. But even the best of ?em get a little rattled when they?re hit with lots of change all at once. Between airports, planes, taxis, hotels, museums, zoos, beaches and sightseeing, it?s a lot of new and potentially overwhelming stuff.
  Chances are you don?t need to be told how your kids can react when they get overwhelmed.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#con-3-unfamiliarity-can-breed-uncertainty-and-unease

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  Con #4: Traveling can suck the life out of you

  If you thought it was hard to be the Mom-In-Chief of your household, try adding Tour Guide to your job description. Not only do little kids want to be entertained constantly, they kind of need to be. Which means you have to figure out activities to occupy your days and nights, as well as the location of all nearby restrooms and soft-serve ice cream shops.
  Oh, and when your kids inevitably get diarrhea because of something they ate (one too many soft-serve ice cream cones, perhaps?) or drank, you?ll also need to locate a pediatrician/pharmacy/plunger.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#con-4-traveling-can-suck-the-life-out-of-you

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  Con #5: You need a vacation from your vacation

  Even if you manage not to get woken up 19 times a night while sharing a hotel room with your kids, they end up thriving on all of the new sights, smells and tastes they experience, and don?t collapse into a heap of tantrums roughly every two hours, you are probably ready to sleep for the next four weeks following a vacation with your children.
  It?s a rare toddler who will let you nap and read on the beach for a few hours of downtime each day. It?s a common toddler, however, who acts like a shark that needs to move forward and constantly, never stopping. And that means a vacation is like a sprint and marathon wrapped into one.
  Oh, and then there?s all that laundry once you get back home.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#con-5-you-need-a-vacation-from-your-vacation

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  Pro #1: Your kids will learn to experience the joys of travel from a young age

  Some great travelers are born, but others are made. If you start traveling with your children when they?re very little, enduring long plane rides becomes less of a hassle and more of a passageway to something new and potentially thrilling.
  Get them to enjoy travel early in life and it?s as if you?ve given them a passport to keep exploring for the rest of their lives.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#pro-1-your-kids-will-learn-to-experience-the-joys-of-travel-from-a-young-age

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  Pro #2: Carefree family time is spent without any work distractions

  When was the last time you sat down to a family meal without the home phone ringing, iPhone vibrating or doorbell ringing? OK, when was the last time you had a few consecutive meals without any of that happening?
  It?s the miracle of getting away from it all: You can really get away from it all. And no matter where you go, that?s a vacation in and of itself.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#pro-2-carefree-family-time-is-spent-without-any-work-distractions

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  Pro #3: Kids get to test out their more adventurous side

  Whether you can manage to get your children to try Blue Point oysters in Great South Bay or Rocky Mountain oysters in Colorado, if they go parasailing in Mexico or rock climbing in the Gunks, they might relish the opportunity to show you what they?re made of, and you?ll relish witnessing how well they do outside of their comfort zone.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#pro-3-kids-get-to-test-out-their-more-adventurous-side

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  Pro #4: Tremendous family memories are being created

  That time they swam with dolphins. That time you bought that colorful blanket from a beach vendor. That time you got stuck in a chair lift. That time there was a spider in the bed.
  OK, maybe that last one was a Brady Bunch vacation memory. But the point is that the shared experiences away from home have a way of seeping into everyone?s consciousness and popping up in a dream or story even long after the trip has ended and etching a permanent place in the Fond Recollections section of the brain.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#pro-4-tremendous-family-memories-are-being-created

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  Pro #5: More miles mean more stories

  Not only do family vacations create fond memories, but traveling can do wonders for a child?s imagination. They?ll have more to write about, more to draw about, more to look forward to, more to think about, and more to visualize. Keep stamping pages in their passport as often as you can and watch the creative juices flow freely.

  /toddler-times/2012/09/18/with-or-without-you-5-pros-and-5-cons-of-taking-little-kids-on-vacation/#pro-5-more-miles-mean-more-stories

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Why Should We Respond to Internet Activists? | Speaking of Research

Ten days ago we announced our Science Action Network (supported by UAR), which aims to debunk animal rights misinformation (Twitter: #ARnonsense) across the internet. Our first week has had its successes, turning one poll from 22% against to (at time of writing) 71% in favour of animal research. We?ve also helped direct a few extra pro-research comments to areas where animal rights activists had a monopoly. The campaign continues (so keep checking our Twitter, Facebook and #ARnonsense hashtag), but a broader question remains. Why should we reply to the ramblings of activists? Do these comments benefit the broader debate?

There are some truly incredible claims made by activists. Some suggest (and presumably believe) that animal research has not made a single contribution to modern medicine, others believe that we have already cured cancer but that pharmaceuticals are trying to cover it up in order to sell more treatments (below). We believe that it is important to challenge these misinformed mistruths. But why? Let us explore a number of scenarios.

Comments on a discussion entitled: ?What if Animal Testing Led to a Cure to Cancer??

News Stories

There are many stories which make mention of animal research. Some are directly about the general debate, or about a lab (the rare lapses in animal welfare tend to make a lot of news), or a new drug development with a (all to brief) mention of the animals in the research. Animal rights groups often swarm these stories, giving readers the impression that the general public is against animal research (which is untrue). On top of this the misinformation written by activists can sometimes sway those less informed about research and less able to spot the spurious claims about research from the genuine ones. Therefore, it is important to comment on these stories in order to (a) show editors and readers that the public is not against research; and (b) to ensure that ridiculous claims (e.g. ?we don?t need animal research, we have other methods?) are challenged and debunked for the casual reader.

Letters to Newspapers

Activists often send letters to newspapers (more often the local ones) about the evilness of animal research. The pseudoscience they peddle, as well as the cruelty they claim, will often begin to sway the uninformed reader ? so it is important that replies are made. The more replies to a letter, the more likely it is that one of them will be published.

Internet Polls

At the start of this article I celebrated us attracting an extra 100 votes in support of research so that, in a poll of under 200 people, we were in the majority. Why does it matter? Presumably the pollsters have made up their mind. However, when others do look at the poll (or indeed search for polls to assess public opinion) we do not want them seeing some small poll and come to the false conclusion that the majority of people are against animal research. Depending on how one asks the question, support for animal research tends to be between 55% and 80% in the US.

Internet Forums

So why does it matter what people are writing on obscure internet sites? When Jonny95 asks the interwebs about whether animal testing is good or evil there are unlikely to be more than a handful of undecided readers. However, if little Jonny is bombarded with anti-research nonsense he is not only more likely to not support it, he is also more likely to be one who propagates the animal rights claims in the future. The more he is subjected to just an AR message (with no scientific response), the more likely he himself will become an animal rights activist.

Pro-Research Stories / News

So someone has written a pro-research story in their blog or website ? why should we be leaving positive comments or ?liking? their posts? Two reasons, if activists mob their posts with negative comments then the individual responsible is less likely to write anything similar again, secondly, those in favour who look at the post are also less likely to stick their head above the parapet.

Animal Rights Forums

While there are some forums which simply aren?t worth putting in a comment (e.g. ALF or the PeTA forums) there are some places where animal rights individuals tend to collect in greater number (e.g. the Care2 forum). While you may not win over many hearts and minds, it is sometimes worth installing a little doubt in the mind of those opposed to animal research. Furthermore, it does help prevent the break the constant reinforcement of views that occurs when an activists every claim is celebrated no matter how ridiculous.

#ARnonsense

So with all this in mind there seems only one things left to say ? and that is to provide the #ARnonsense of the day.

1. Dr. Hansen claims that animal research is cruel and unnecessary ? Please explain how animal research is heavily regulated, and essential for understanding of the body and the pathologies that affect it.

2. Holly Buckley claims animal research is irrelevant and cruel ? Please debunk

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Skilled hunters 300,000 years ago

ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) ? Finds from early stone age site in north-central Germany show that human ingenuity is nothing new -- and was probably shared by now-extinct species of humans.

Archeologists from the University of T?bingen have found eight extremely well-preserved spears -- an astonishing 300,000 years old, making them the oldest known weapons anywhere. The spears and other artifacts as well as animal remains found at the site demonstrate that their users were highly skilled craftsmen and hunters, well adapted to their environment -- with a capacity for abstract thought and complex planning comparable to our own. It is likely that they were members of the species Homo heidelbergensis, although no human remains have yet been found at the site.

The project is headed by Prof. Nicholas Conard and the excavations are supervised by Dr. Jordi Serangeli, both from the University of T?bingen's Institute of Prehistory, which has been supporting the local authority's excavation in an open-cast brown coal mine in Sch?ningen since 2008. They are applying skills from several disciplines at this uniquely well-preserved site find out more about how humans lived in the environment of 300,000 years ago.

The bones of large mammals -- elephants, rhinoceroses, horses and lions -- as well as the remains of amphibians, reptiles, shells and even beetles have been preserved in the brown coal. Pines, firs, and black alder trees are preserved complete with pine cones, as have the leaves, pollen and seeds of surrounding flora.

Until the mining started 30 years ago, these finds were below the water table. The archeologists say they are now carrying out "underwater archaeology without the water." Work continues almost all year round, and every day there is something new to document and recover.

Some of the most important finds of the past three years have been remains of a water buffalo in the context of human habitation, an almost completely preserved aurochs (one of the oldest in central Europe), and several concentrations of stone artifacts, bones and wood. They allow the scientists to examine an entire landscape instead of just one site. That makes Sch?ningen an exciting location and global reference point not just for archaeology, but also for quaternary ecology and climate research. A research center and museum, the "Pal?on," is to be opened in 2013 to to provide information to the public about the work going on in Sch?ningen.

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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ? A Pakistani court granted bail to three owners of a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi where a fire this week killed 258 people, a defense lawyer said Friday, infuriating families of those who perished in the country's worst industrial accident.

Pakistani police have opened a murder case and are investigating whether possible negligence by the owners and managers of the garment factory led to the massive loss of life in the Tuesday night fire.

The horrific way the factory workers died has infuriated many Pakistanis. People caught in the basement suffocated when it filled with smoke while those on the higher floors were forced to break through metal bars over the windows and jump for their lives to the ground below.

News that the men had been granted bail without even being arrested, a legal practice in Pakistan which allows people to avoid jail, outraged families still grieving their dead.

"The owners of the garment factory should be arrested and hanged as quickly as possible," said Zaitoon Bibi, who lost her son in the fire. "I do not think I will get justice as these owners are powerful and rich."

A lawyer for the men, Amir Mansoob Qureshi, said the judge instructed the police that the factory owners cannot be arrested for eight days under bail terms. The court also asked the owners to surrender their passports and ordered them not to leave the country, the lawyer said.

He said the men went to the city of Larkana, north of Karachi, to ask for bail because they feared for their safety in Karachi.

One of the factory owners, Arshad Bhaila, blamed the city's firefighters for the deaths, saying in televised comments that they arrived late to extinguish the blaze.

In his first public comments since the disaster, Bhaila said they would look after all the families of the dead and injured.

The blaze was the deadliest industrial accident in Pakistan's 65-year history, and highlighted the woeful safety conditions that exist at many factories around the country.

An officer at Karachi's central fire station, Hasan Raza, said firefighters had been dispatched to the scene almost immediately. Within an hour the blaze had been designated as the highest priority, and 26 fire engines were on the scene, he said.

Survivors said they had only one way out of the building since the factory's owner had locked all the other exit doors after a recent theft. Bhaila denied that they had locked the doors.

The fire started when a boiler exploded and the flames ignited chemicals that were stored in the factory, which manufactured jeans and other clothes for export.

In a separate development Friday, security officials briefly arrested the son of the recently ousted Pakistani prime minister for his alleged role in helping two pharmaceutical companies obtain huge amounts of ephedrine for drug trading, his lawyer said. He was taken into custody just before he was to appear at a hearing before the Supreme Court.

The arrest and immediate release of Ali Musa, the son of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, is another example of the festering standoff between Pakistan's powerful military and an increasingly activist court that has been using its influence to hold Pakistan's political and military leaders to account.

Officers from the anti-narcotics force, a military-backed law enforcement agency, arrested Ali Musa at the Supreme Court gates on Friday, said Musa's lawyer, Khalid Ranjha.

Gilani's son is accused of using his political influence in 2010 to get the ephedrine for two pharmaceutical companies. They are suspected of diverting it to people in the drug trade. Ephedrine can be used to make methamphetamines.

Musa has denied the charges.

The arrest warrant was issued in June, but Musa has been in hiding. He was supposed to appear in front of the court to see whether he could receive bail. But before he could get there, police threw him in a vehicle and sped away, the lawyer said.

The court then demanded he be released, which authorities did, and then he was granted bail.

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Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed contributed to this report from Islamabad.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-factory-owners-deadly-blaze-bail-084038607.html

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