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Sunday, November 11, 2012
'World War Z' Round-Up: Trailer And A New Photo
Zombies are so hot right now. And lest we be worried about an over-saturation of the undead walkers in pop culture at the moment, we're still psyched about Brad Pitt's foray into the genre with "World War Z." Thankfully, there's a new trailer and "Entertainment Weekly" has a brand new photo from the film to [...]
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Married Fathers More Involved With Their Kids Than ... - Psychology
November 9th, 2012
According to a recent study conducted by Genevieve Bouchard of the School of Psychology at the University of Moncton in Canada, fathers who are married are more involved with their newborns than those who cohabitate with the mothers. Paternal involvement has become an increasingly interesting area of research in recent years because of how much it affects a child?s development. Factors that have been examined with respect to paternal involvement include being married to versus cohabiting with the mother, as well as the father?s experience with his mother. The level of maternal affection, warmth, and involvement that the father received during his childhood has been of particular interest. Researchers theorize that a father will parent similarly to how he was parented. If he received emotional support, love, and attention from his mother, he will be more inclined to demonstrate those to his children.
To test this theory and examine how marital status affects this behavior, Bouchard evaluated 158 men several weeks before their children were due and again when their children were six months old. She assessed the level of involvement that the fathers exhibited during the pregnancy and after and found that the men who received little maternal support and warmth growing up were less involved in their child?s care than those who received more. They were also less engaged during the pregnancy. But this was the case only among the men who lived with their partners and were not married. ?By comparison, for men who transitioned to fatherhood in married relationships, maternal physical affection is unrelated to postnatal engagement,? Bouchard said.
This finding was critical, as it demonstrates that even if men were neglected during their youth, they can avoid acting the same way toward their children by learning prevention strategies and enhancing their parenting skills as they transition to parenthood. These men may also benefit from strategies to fortify their commitment to the mothers of their children.
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Bouchard, Genevieve. Intergenerational transmission and transition to fatherhood: A mediated-moderation model of paternal engagement.?Journal of Family Psychology?26.5 (2012): 747-55. Print.
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Illuminate Blog ? Winning the kid lottery: how adoption changed my ...
Our family continued to adjust and grow together. Brandon sometimes recognized gaps in his early years and we did our best to fill those in. One time when he was seven or eight, he asked me if we could read some fairy tales and said, ?I never go to hear those when I was little.? So we read fairy tales.
We had great times and tough times. Steve and I had not had much conflict in our marriage until we became parents. Once we adopted Brandon, there were differences from our own upbringing and stress from parenting that presented challenges. Brandon went back and forth sometimes in his attachment to us. We would feel close and then he would get scared and act out. Children who have had significant disruption and loss in their early years can be scared of closeness because closeness can be associated with loss for them. If parents don?t understand this paradoxical behavior, it can be really hurtful and confusing.
Being a counselor myself, I was inclined to seek counseling to help all of us adjust and thrive through the years. We found it challenging sometimes to find mental health professionals that were really skilled in dealing with adoption issues. We needed assistance with Brandon?s attachment, managing Brandon?s ADHD, Steve and me adjusting to being parents, raising a child drawn to thrill-seeking behaviors. We also wrestled with the same issues many families face as kids grow up.
Sadly, some adoptions do not last. Stresses can build up and without counselors who really understand how to help, families can end up coming apart. We were fortunate to find good help and we had support from family and friends. I also think that Brandon is a particularly resilient child. One advantage of his impulsiveness is that he tends to say whatever he is thinking out loud. (Trust me, this is good news and bad news!) However, it helped us understand his needs and we were able to weather all the challenges that came our way.
Now Brandon is 20. He?s living at home and working right now. We hope he will go to college or vocational school later on but he tried it right after he graduated and he just couldn?t sit in a classroom any more for now. He loves being active. Construction is the job he?s liked best so far?on his first day they put him in a harness and had him climb something really high and then they had him use power tools. Plenty of excitement so he was hooked!
I read this post to Brandon and asked him what he would say about his adoption. He said, ?I think I got raised in a better family than I would have if I had stayed with my birth mom. Being with my (adoptive) parents helped me forget about the bad stuff that had happened to me. I would want to be adopted by my mom and dad again if I had a choice. I don?t remember all the tough times we had when I was growing up but I remember I had some tantrums. Sometimes I thought they worried too much and were too strict. I know my mom and dad will always stick by me no matter what happens. I had some hard things happen last year and my parents did everything they could to help me.??
When Brandon was younger, Steve and I used to speak at MAPP classes sometimes. Once I asked Brandon what he thought parents should know when they are going to adopt a kid. He said, ?Tell them that the kid is sometimes really scared even if he doesn?t want to be scared. He might not want to say he is scared but the parents should remember that so they can help him.? Brandon gave us the gift of his trust and he took the risk of loving us. This is no small risk for a kid who has been hurt by loved ones and separated from them. I think he was really brave and I?m so glad he was.
With all the ups and downs, would we do it again? Absolutely! I feel incredibly grateful for the gift of our family. People often worry that there is a lot of uncertainty in adopting an older child?you don?t always know what they?ve been through and how their early experiences of abuse or neglect might have affected them. I believe there?s uncertainly in all parenting. Children who are nurtured from the moment of conception can develop illnesses or other problems. No one can totally control the experiences we have in life. Significant upset and even trauma touch most families at one time or another.
More importantly, love, resilience, support and guidance can also be a part of every family?s journey. To me, it doesn?t matter so much how your family gets created?what I think matters is what you create together.
If you would like to learn more about adoptions from foster care, you can visit the website of? Community Based Care of Central Florida at http://cbccfl.org/. We have included information from CBCCFL regarding this year?s National Adoption Day activities here:
Every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, a coalition of child welfare organizations, such as ours, Community Based Care of Central Florida (CBCCFL) sponsor National Adoption Day. This year, on Friday November 16, we invite you to participate in Orange, Seminole and Osceola Counties.
National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the more than 100,000 children in foster care who are waiting for families. At the heart of National Adoption Day are thousands of children, parents, judges, adoption professional, volunteer lawyers and child advocates and community members who come together to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care to celebrate all the families who adopt. In the tri-county area, we expect to finalize 45-50 adoptions on this special day.? ? ? ? ?
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It's not just Luck for the Colts
APRyan Fitzpatrick might feel like he?s the Bills quarterback of the future, but the fact his boss keeps talking about finding one suggests he isn?t.
For the second time in a week, Bills general manager Buddy Nix went to great lengths to explain the need for a long-term answer at quarterback, saying he needed to find the answer this offseason.
During a regular segment on WGR, Nix said he wanted to draft a quarterback in April.
?Let me be as honest as I can,? Nix said, via Tim Graham of the Buffalo News. ?I think we really need to address it this year. The thing we can?t do is you can?t create one. You can?t go out, thinking ?I?ve got to make this guy a player.? If you do, then you?re going to be in a bigger mess. We don?t want to do that. We try to guard against that.
?But we do need another one, and we need to do it this time.?
When Nix talked about it previously, he didn?t offer such a hard-and-fast timetable.
But he said drafting a quarterback didn?t necessarily mean using his first pick on one. He said he didn?t see a can?t-miss prospect such as an Andrew Luck in this class.
?You?ve got guys spread out all over the league that have been successful that didn?t go with in the first round or the first five or 10 picks,? Nix said. ?That is the hard part, now.
?If you got a [Andrew] Luck, an RG3 [Robert Griffin III], a Cam [Newton], those were the buzz guys every year, and it proved to be accurate on those guys. But I don?t see one of those yet in this draft. That may develop later on, but there is a lot of good players in the draft, a lot of good quarterbacks.?
For all the guys he named, there are also guys such as Christian Ponder, Jake Locker and Blaine Gabbert, all of whom were drafted in the top 12, and all of whom were obviously overdrafted, some by several rounds.
The Bills can?t make that kind of mistake, or they?ll be even further behind than they already are.
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Friday, November 9, 2012
An ancient civilization's wet ascent, dry demise
Newly documented climate shifts helped shape Classic Maya destiny
By Bruce Bower
Web edition: November 8, 2012
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Researchers analyzed a stalagmite from this cave in Belize to reconstruct patterns of rainfall during Classic Maya civilization. Evidence suggests climate shifts accompanied the ancient society?s rise and fall.
Credit: D. Kennett/Penn State
Classic Maya civilization rose and fell with the rains.
This once-majestic society, known for massive pyramids and hieroglyphic writing, expanded during an unusually rainy time and declined as the sky?s spigots dried up and periodic droughts arrived, a new study suggests.
A 2,000-year climate record, gleaned from a stalagmite inside a Belize cave, highlights a central role for climate shifts in the ancient civilization?s fortunes, say anthropologist Douglas Kennett of Penn State University and his colleagues.
A bounty of rain nurtured Maya agriculture and city building from the years 440 to 660, Kennett?s team reports in the Nov. 9 Science. A drying trend and occasional droughts after 660 were accompanied by declining crop yields, increasing warfare among Maya city-states and a shift of political centers northward into the Yucatan Peninsula, the researchers say. After the collapse of Maya political systems between 800 and 1000, a severe drought hit southern Belize from 1020 to 1100 and apparently motivated remaining Maya to leave the area.
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Stretches of wet and dry weather influenced the growth and abandonment of ancient Maya political centers, such as Caracol in Belize, a new study suggests.
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?It looks like the Maya got lulled by a uniquely rainy period in the early Classic period into thinking that water would always be there,? Kennett says.
His team analyzed a stalagmite that grew in Yok Balum Cave from 40 B.C. to 2006 A.D. Rainfall estimates for each year of rock formation were derived from measurements of oxygen that accumulated in the stalagmite as runoff from rains entered the cave.
Yok Balum lies near a half-dozen major Classic Maya sites. The scientists compared the climate data with historical records, carved on stone monuments at these sites, of Maya warfare and political events.
Researchers have argued for decades about whether the Classic Maya collapse stemmed more from droughts or from warfare and weakened political systems. Kennett says the new evidence is consistent with climate changes interacting with social forces to pull Classic Maya civilization in different directions. Maya city-building before the Classic era (SN: 5/22/04, p. 334) may have enabled rapid social advances when early Classic rains pelted down.
Intermittent droughts after 660 probably increased political pressure on already weakened Maya rulers as well as undermined the power of strong kings, Kennett says. Both situations would have upped the chances of wars breaking out.
Kennett?s team has produced a ?groundbreaking? rainfall history for southern Belize, says anthropologist Diane Chase of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. With her husband, UCF anthropologist Arlen Chase, she co-directs excavations at Caracol, a Classic Maya site not far from Yok Balum.
Further work needs to establish whether the new climate record applies to Classic Maya sites in Guatemala and the Yucatan, says anthropologist Vernon Scarborough of the University of Cincinnati. Droughts could have affected some parts of Classic Maya territory more than others, he says. Reservoirs and canals may have allowed some Maya cities to weather waterless periods better.
The ancient Maya adapted to many environmental challenges, suggesting that droughts alone didn?t cause the society to collapse, says Arlen Chase. Still, Scarborough says, ?there can be little doubt that droughts played a significant role in the rise and fall of Maya civilization.?Karen Klein Colorado fires supreme court summer solstice Summer Solstice 2012 Waldo Canyon fire nba finals
Daytrading, Stock Trading, Investing and Forex Trading ...
With the recession practically now over and grinding down to a halt, the recovery period starts.
To distinguish between which stocks have utterly bottomed out and which continue to fall, you ought to use an automatic stockmarket trading system which is specially engineered to use rational, algorithmic tools to interpret market information and find worthwhile trading prospects. Accordingly , many stocks are at record low costs and are ready for the picking, making it one of the greatest times to speculate in decades. An automatic stock dealing systems especially works by taking the full breadth of the market into account each time it researches realtime market information. An uncultivated financier hazards losing hard-won money and squandering time.
Learn as much as humanly possible about the exchange prior to making any investments. Make smaller goals initially, then work up to more bold goals. If you're greedy and unacceptably bold at the start, you'll potentially be disappointed in your results. Noob stockmarket dealing might be an enjoyable experience for you, if you don't forget to learn all that you can about the stockmarket before you invest. * Although the penny market is low cost compared with other stocks you can still make a respectable profit that will make a real difference for you and also your family so far as earnings to help in paying for your debts or building toward your retirement. * Learning the language linked with penny shares is critical. * There are new technologies out there now that may seriously raise your chances for successful securities dealing.
The nice thing about the stockmarket trading software is the undeniable fact that they're programmed to recognise the trends and advise you of which stocks are probably going to be good to make an investment in. The factors that you'd be considering in your research will fall into one of the 2 following classes : -quantitative : factors that are really capable of being voiced re cash or numbers -qualitative : industrial factors that can't be voiced in numbers and involve the utilising of judgment. While this will appear pointlessly complex to you, think for one moment about the huge range of factors that influence the performance of a corporation. While it's not difficult to understand numbers, you cannot actually judge whether a company stock is a decent investment without considering stuff like the standard of management, the activity of their makes of exclusive intellectual property and the like. For example, you can analyse the financials of a firm like Citibank but are you able to actually guage the investment without considering the great benefit of the that company brand? Without an advantage of the brand, the company would be yet another provider of sugared water. Any fool can start an organization that sells sugared water but would you think about this company may be on a similar level to the company selected? Nonetheless let us return to the question : why should we are going thru all this difficulty? A major expectations in fundamental investigation is that the corporation's share price doesn't always reflect its true value.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Windows Phone 8 to automatically sync over public Wi-Fi
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Our cities are blanketed with free Wi-Fi access points, but sometimes it can be a pain to track down and join a free one nearby. Windows Phone 8 is getting a feature that not only tracks such Wi-Fi points, but bypasses the log-in process often necessary to get connected.
The service is offered by Devicescape, and is already available on some laptops, and a few smaller carriers have added it to their phones, but this deal with Microsoft could be the company's biggest.
Devicescape keeps a huge database of the millions of Wi-Fi access points out there, and when your phone detects one, it retrieves info about it from that database and then logs in. Even access points that require a log-in or require you to agree to terms of service can be used. And all this is without any intervention by the user.
Relying on Wi-Fi whenever it's available isn't always good for battery life, but it does help keep your carrier bandwidth usage down. If you like to watch videos on the go, or often check services like Instagram, those megabytes start adding up to gigabytes pretty quickly. If your phone jumped onto the nearest Wi-Fi without you having to pull up a list of access points and log in, you might save both time and bandwidth.
And if you wonder if you might get shunted onto someone's personal network, or perhaps a slow, outdated one, don't worry. Devicescape keeps records of all that and if a network isn't fast enough or isn't meant for public use, the database is updated and you won't connect to it again.
Windows Phone 8 devices will be?making their debut over the next few weeks on the major?U.S. carriers.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Polynesians made Tonga 2,800 years ago
The first Polynesian settlers sailed to Tonga between 2,830 and 2,846 years ago, according to new research.
The findings, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, relied on ultraprecise dating of coral tools found at Tonga's first settlement.
"The technique provides us with unbelievable precision in dating quite ancient materials," said David Burley, a co-author of the study and an archaeologist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. "This stuff is almost 3,000 years old, and the date range is within 16 years."
The new techniques could be used to trace the migration of Polynesia's prehistoric seafarers as they colonized the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean, he said.
The Lapita people, the ancestors of modern-day Pacific Islanders, first sailed from coastal New Guinea roughly 5,000 years ago, reaching the Solomon Islands around 3,100 years ago and gradually expanding farther east toward what is now the archipelago Tonga, Burley told LiveScience.
Across a string of Pacific islands, the Lapita left traces of their culture: primitive nail files broken from staghorn coral reefs. The ancient inhabitants of Oceania likely used these coral files to smooth the surfaces of wooden objects or shell bracelets, Burley said.
Archaeologists determine when the Lapita migrated to an island by estimating the age of the earliest coral files there. Historically, they dated the coral files using radioactive carbon isotopes (atoms of the same element with different weights). But precise numbers were elusive, because carbon dating can be off by a few hundred years. [ The 9 Craziest Ocean Voyages ]
To see if they could do better, Burley and his team analyzed 16 coral files found buried in the sand under the site of Polynesia's oldest known settlement, a small village called Nukuleka on the Tongan island of Tongatapu.
But instead of using radioactive carbon, the team used radioactive uranium and developed a method to date the ancient coral fragments with incredible precision.
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The researchers pinpointed the date of first landfall at Tonga to within eight years of 826 B.C.
Because the Lapita scattered such coral files at many sites, the new technique could be used to retrace the steps of the ancient seafarers throughout Oceania with astonishing accuracy, Burley said.
"We can look at this progression across the Pacific in ways we couldn't before," he said.
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