CONVENTION WATCH: Romney's big night approaches

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney looks over the podium during a sound check at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney looks over the podium during a sound check at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Republican vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan pose with their campaign staff for a group picture at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney directs the placement of the teleprompter during a sound check at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Michigan delegates Carol Knoblauch, left, and Barbara Brady fashion their masks of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. wave to their supporters after posing a group picture with their campaign staff at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Convention Watch shows you the 2012 political conventions through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.

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POLICE-PROTESTER LOVE?

As the Republican National Convention wears on, protesters are getting worn out.

The busloads of protesters ? who are staying at a makeshift camp dubbed "Romneyville" ? have seen their food and water supplies dwindle. Law enforcement has noticed, as well.

So on Thursday morning, police brought boxed lunches of sandwiches, fruits and ice-cold water to Romneyville. Chief Jane Castor said police had extra food, so they decided to donate it rather than throw it out.

Castor, during a morning news conference, said simply: "We're here to serve the public."

? Tamara Lush ? Twitter http://twitter.com/tamaralush

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WHO'S TUNING IN

Sure, political conventions aim to fire up the die-hard partisans in the arena, but they're also made-for-TV events designed to appeal to undecided voters. Recent polling suggests they may not be hitting their mark.

A Pew Research Center survey before the Republican convention began found just over four in 10 adults were interested in following each party's convention.

Partisans were most interested in their own gathering ? 70 percent of Republicans were interested in this week's events and 66 percent of Democrats were interested in their party's upcoming convention. Fewer partisans check in on the other team: 41 percent of Democrats were interested in the goings-on in Tampa, Fla., while 28 percent of Republicans were interested in tuning in for Obama's re-nomination.

Among independents, just 37 percent said they were interested in the Republican convention, 36 percent in the Democratic one.

For Republicans angling for young, disaffected Obama voters, the convention may not be their best chance. Overnight ratings for the GOP convention suggested less than 10 percent of viewers were under age 35. The Pew poll found less than 30 percent of twenty-somethings were interested in the political conventions.

? Jennifer Agiesta ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jennagiesta

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ROMNEY PREVIEW

In his big speech, Mitt Romney will make a direct appeal to voters who felt excited to cast a ballot for Barack Obama four years ago.

"If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama?" Romney says in excerpts released before his Thursday night speech. "You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had, was the day you voted for him."

You've been let down, Romney's telling former Obama voters, by a presidency that lapsed into disappointment and division.

"Many Americans have given up on this president, but they haven't ever thought about giving up," Romney says. "Not on themselves. Not on each other. And not on America."

Riffing on Obama's 2008 catchphrase, "Yes we can," Romney plans to tell Americans, "Now is the moment when we CAN do something."

What can Americans do, according to Romney? Vote for him.

? Connie Cass ?Twitter http://twitter.com/ConnieCass

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POLITICAL FOOTBALL

There may be large swaths of a Republican stronghold otherwise occupied during Mitt Romney's big speech Thursday night. College football debuts at the same time, and that can trump anything else on TV, especially in the pigskin-crazy South.

The marquee matchup happens down in Tennessee, with Steve Spurrier's No. 9 South Carolina Gamecocks taking on the Vanderbilt Commodores in Nashville at 7 p.m. EDT. But the GOP probably isn't worried about losing interest or votes in either South Carolina or Tennessee, both of which are normally reliable Republican states in presidential contests.

? Jesse J. Holland ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jessejholland

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TEMPEST OVER A TEMPEST

The Democratic Party chairwoman, who also happens to be a Floridian, is slamming Republicans' decision to continue with their Tampa convention as the Gulf Coast was battered by a hurricane.

She says it's an example of the GOP's "continued focus on winning at all costs."

"I will note that the parties, the special interest fund bashes that were not canceled, went on in spite of the fact that our state was getting hit and Tampa was in the path of the storm," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said at a press conference Thursday, when asked if Republicans had acted wisely by canceling the first day of their convention.

"I give them credit for canceling the first day," she said. "The way they handled it going forward as the rest of the region was getting battered - probably a challenging situation for them. There are other ways they could have handled it other than the way they chose. They could have taken things down a notch."

? Beth Fouhy ? Twitter http://twitter.com/bfouhy

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IT'S ABOUT THE MOMENT

After watching the boss try out the podium and the teleprompters, senior aide Eric Fehrnstrom was in no mood to lower expectations. He predicted a great performance from Mitt Romney as he formally accepts the presidential nomination Thursday night.

"These speeches are just as much about the moment as they are about the words," Fehrnstrom said. "One thing we know about Mitt Romney is that he always rises to the occasion.

"This is the biggest speech of his political career. And I have no doubt that he will deliver the best speech of his political career."

? Steve Peoples ? Twitter http://twitter.com/sppeoples

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STANDING O

Mitt Romney got a standing ovation in the convention hall ? six hours before he was set to take the stage for his speech.

Romney and running mate Paul Ryan stopped in for an afternoon walk-through at the Forum in Tampa, Fla., where Romney formally accepts the presidential nomination Thursday night.

Delegates milling around the mostly empty hall stood and applauded for Romney and Ryan, both dressed in suit and tie.

The two paused for photographs near the podium with campaign staff, including senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom and policy director Lanhee Chan.

After that, Romney stood at the podium while aides adjusted the height of his teleprompter.

Minutes later, they were gone.

? Josh Lederman ? Twitter http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP

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SAY WHAT?

Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has proclaimed her support for the election of ... Barack Obama?

Clearly just a verbal slip, says her spokesman. The governor's skirmishes with the Obama administration over the issue of illegal immigration are well-known. At one point she was captured on camera pointing an angry finger at the president as they talked on an airport tarmac.

Brewer's surprising comment came in an MSNBC interview Wednesday at the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., as she renewed her call for improved security on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Brewer said she was hopeful Obama would be elected in November so he could help come up with a solution. She didn't correct herself, nor was she prompted to.

Brewer spokesman Matthew Benson said Thursday that the governor isn't the first person to misspeak amid the chaos of a crowded room.

For the record: Brewer continues to endorse Republican Mitt Romney for president.

? Felicia Fonseca ? Twitter http://twitter.com/FonsecaAP

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FUNEREAL?

At a thank-you luncheon Wednesday for campaign supporters, Ann Romney enthused that the convention has given her a chance to "see so many people you've known" over time.

"It's like going to your own funeral," she joked.

Maybe not the best metaphor.

? Nancy Benac ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nbenac

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COUSIN WHO?

On his big speech day, Mitt Romney spent the morning visiting with family ? family in the triple digits.

"About 120 of our family gathered," Romney told campaign donors gathered in a banquet hall in St. Petersburg. "And it's amazing how the families come together in times like this. We got our pictures taken with some members we hadn't seen in a long time. It was heartwarming."

? Nancy Benac ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nbenac

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ROMNEY PREGAME

No matter what GOP nominee Mitt Romney says Thursday night, it'll join the reel of history.

In that spirit, the public affairs-focused cable channel C-SPAN warmed up its audience Thursday with a trip down convention memory lane.

C-SPAN aired convention addresses of Republican nominees past, starting with Barry Goldwater's "renew freedom's vision" speech at San Francisco's Cow Palace Arena in 1964. Throughout the afternoon, viewers could see archived remarks of Richard Nixon in 1968, Ronald Reagan in 1984, George H.W. Bush in 1998 and George W. Bush in 2000.

? Brian Bakst ? Twitter http://twitter.com/Stowydad

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A NEW STAGE

Mitt Romney's convention planners transformed part of the Forum overnight, getting ready for the big finale ? the presidential nominee's speech to the nation.

They extended the stage about 12 feet out into the crowd and surrounded the bottom of the steps with a see-through barrier. They're still drilling and working on it, and the podium is gone at the moment. A bunch of people are testing the stability of the new stage now. Currently, the center seats are gone, but there's still a space where they haven't put down new carpeting and it looks like the seats will go there.

? Julie Mazziotta ? Twitter http://twitter.com/julietmazz

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A GHOSTLY PRESENCE

Former President George W. Bush may be a ghostly presence at the Republican National Convention, but his brother expects him to get top billing, of sorts, next week.

"He'll be more at the Charlotte convention," joked former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on "CBS This Morning." He was referring to the Democratic National Convention that begins Tuesday and is likely to feature lots of George Bush-bashing.

Jeb Bush acknowledges that his brother has been a target because voters blame him for the nation's economic problems. The former president has held no place of honor at the GOP convention other than a video tribute.

That doesn't mean he isn't tuning in to the convention.

"I think he's watching it, and I know he's interested in it," Jeb Bush said. "He's curious about this country. But his attitude is, 'Look, I had a chance, I served, I did my best. It's Mitt Romney's night. It's his turn.'"

? Hope Yen

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MEET REINCE

David Letterman wants to help people get to know Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus.

He couldn't resist milking some jokes out of that intriguing name.

So Letterman put together a gauzy little biographical segment about Priebus for Wednesday night's "Late Show."

All you need to know:

"Reince Priebus is the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He's a lawyer and a former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party. He has four brothers: Roink, Rurch, Remp and Rift. Now you know Reince Priebus."

? Nancy Benac ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nbenac

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BE NICE

President Barack Obama has some nice things to say about Mitt Romney. Really.

He got asked by Time magazine whether there were things "that you actually do admire" about the GOP nominee.

And the Time interviewer specifically asked for something other than the usual dodges about Romney having a nice family and working on health care in Massachusetts.

Here's what Obama came up with:

"He strikes me as somebody who is very disciplined. And I think that that is a quality that obviously contributed to his success as a private equity guy. I think he takes his faith very seriously. And as somebody who takes my Christian faith seriously, I appreciate that he seems to walk the walk and not just be talking the talk when it comes to his participation in his church."

? Nancy Benac ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nbenac

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LATE-NIGHT MITT

The voters Mitt Romney most needs to connect with during Thursday's acceptance speech aren't in the Republican National Convention hall. They're swing voters in their living rooms in places like Iowa, Nevada and Virginia.

Romney, now the official GOP nominee, takes the stage in the 10 o'clock hour in Tampa, Fla.

Of the states deemed most competitive for the fall, four are in the Eastern time zone: Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia. Two are an hour behind in the Central time zone: Iowa and Wisconsin.

Romney's speech will be delivered in the 8 p.m. hour in Colorado and the 7 p.m. hour in Nevada.

? Brian Bakst ? Twitter http://twitter.com/Stowydad

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Facebook insider Moskovitz still unloading IPO stock daily

Nine business days, 1.3 million shares sold

As previously reported, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz disclosed on August 24 that he had sold 900,000 shares of Facebook stock over the six business days following the "lockup" of the stock awarded to him during the IPO. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) he has been continuing this trend, and has shed another 450,000 at a rate of 150,000 per day from Monday through Wednesday.

Including the sales through Wednesday, he still owns more than 130 million shares of the company. The Wednesday disclosure, mandated by SEC regulations, showed he sold the most recent batch at prices between $19.00 and $19.49 per share.

Companies generally impose "lockup" status on insider shares for three months to a year after an IPO to regulate the release of shares on the free market to prevent exactly what's been happening to the share price. Market capitalization has dropped to $42.6 billion since the IPO. The lockup expires on a group of 1.22 billion IPO and founder shares on November 14.

Facebook stock hit a record low on August 17, sinking to just over half the IPO price, as insiders and the first investors in the company became eligible to unload the shares locked up by federal trading restrictions since the commencement of sales. Experts said in response to the drop that the value of the stock and company could plummet further if early purchasers and employees saturate the market with their shares of stock as more lockups expire before the end of the year.

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Business Development Manager - BFSI - IT Services - Sales Jobs

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Amazon App store arrives in Europe, won't be late for school

Amazon's Appstore has been doing brisk business stateside, and is now ready to sell its wares to Europeans in Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Spain. If you sign up, you can create reviews and make 1-click payments, and will have access to a huge library of apps from top-tier brands, as well as localized content. The company said purchases can be used "across a customer's Android devices," which will let you buy an app once, and use it on any of your tablets or smartphones that support the OS. If you'd like to check it out, or get one of Amazon's Free Apps of the Day, check the PR for all the details.

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4 Local Business Marketing Ideas To Grow Your Business | PCMA

Local business marketing strategies will help to grow your local business online. Many consumers are now using the internet to find information they need and that includes the businesses in their local community. It therefore makes sense to have an online presence in the form of a lead generating website which captures the details of website visitors who are then followed up with an email marketing campaign. The email marketing system should establish a relationship with the prospects on the business email list. Once the subscribers get to know the list owner, they are more likely to make a purchase. Using this internet marketing for small business method you will be able to grow your business.

The above marketing system begins with a lead generation website that captures visitor?s details. For a local business to profit from this system, it is necessary to increase the traffic to the business website. There are many ways in which this can be achieved. Here are four local business marketing ideas which you can implement today.

Just as a building is more stable if it has more pillars supporting it, so too will your marketing system benefit from employing many marketing methods rather than concentrating on only one or two. Remember too, to include offline as well as online methods. Some examples are search engine optimization, email marketing, pay per click, internet banner advertising, print media, telephone and direct mail.

Decide to think of your business website as being primarily a lead generation tool and not a site for sales. When people go out on the internet looking for information, they generally do not spend more than ten seconds on a particular site and are not in a buying frame of mind. It is better to use those ten seconds or so to capture their details with an opt in form. Now you have a method to market to them over and over again. Therefore your business website should be set up solely to capture leads.

Set up a follow up system so that you can market to your leads captured from the website. Sign up for, and use an email autoresponder system to keep constantly in touch with the prospects on your business email list. You will be able to achieve more sales by first establishing a relationship with your email list. Email to your list frequently. Send them informative, friendly emails to educate them about your products and services.

When you are writing any content for your web pages or other business content, try to follow the AIDA system. This is a copywriting system which is used to make more sales as it presents your material to them in a way that entices them to buy. As a visitor to your local business website may only stay there for ten seconds, it is important to have content that will give them a reason to continue reading. The ?A? stands for attention. Attract their attention with an enticing headline which spells out the benefits of your offer. The ?I? stands for interest. You need to keep their interest by mentioning the problems they have and which you can solve for them. ?D? stands for desire. Increase their desire for your products and services by emphasizing their problems a little more and mentioning how you can reduce them with your services or product. ?A? stands for action. At the end of your copy encourage them to take some action to access your solutions.

So, there are four strategies you can start with to market your business online as well as offline. Internet marketing for local business works if you work at it.

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Lille lead final five into Champions League

Lille overcame FC Copenhagen in extra time to qualify for the group phase of the Champions League on Wednesday, but while Celtic swept past Helsingborg, there was disappointment for Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Lille had been left shell-shocked by their 1-0 loss in Copenhagen last week but they took a 43rd-minute lead at their new Grand Stade home when Lucas Digne tucked away his first goal from the club from Salomon Kalou's low cross.

Tulio de Melo almost doubled the hosts' lead in the 84th minute, only for his header to hit the crossbar, but the Brazilian atoned in extra time by converting Nolan Roux's cross to give the 2011 French champions a 2-1 aggregate win.

Rudi Garcia's side can now look forward to Champions League football in their purpose-built 50,000-seater stadium, and they will learn the identities of their future opponents in Thursday's group-stage draw in Monaco.

"I'm happy for (club president) Michel Seydoux, not because of the financial implications but for the collective emotions," said Lille coach Garcia.

"The fans were magnificent and they really pushed us. We'll be in the draw. We have to savour it and congratulate the players, because they were really great."

Moenchengladbach, beaten finalists in 1977, had been bidding to reach the group phase for the first time in the Champions League era but they narrowly missed out on qualification after losing 2-1 at Dynamo Kiev.

Having gone down 3-1 at home in the first leg, they managed to level the tie thanks to a 70th-minute own goal from Yevhen Khacheridi and a Juan Arango header eight minutes later.

It took Lucien Favre's team to within a goal of a place in the group stage, but the next goal came for the home side, Nigerian striker Ideye Brown running clear and coolly chipping Marc-Andre ter Stegen to secure Dynamo's passage.

Celtic already had one foot in the tournament proper after last week's 2-0 win over Helsingborg and they finished the job in style at Celtic Park, with another victory by the same scoreline completing a 4-0 aggregate success.

Gary Hooper settled the home fans' nerves in the 30th when he tapped home from Georgios Samaras' centre in the 30th minute, despite strong suspicions of offside.

James Forrest saw a powerful 20-yard shot come back off the post late in the second half before Kenyan striker Victor Wanyama set the seal on victory with an 88th-minute header.

It is the first time Celtic have qualified for the group phase of Europe's premier club competition since the 2008-09 season.

"It's the best thing I've done in football," Celtic manager Neil Lennon told Sky Sports. "The pressure going into this game and, in particular, the last five or six weeks, has been enormous.

"You know what it means to the fans here. It's been four years in the waiting and I'm just so happy and so proud of them."

Elsewhere, Spartak Moscow drew 1-1 at Fenerbahce to completed a 3-2 aggregate win, while FC Basel -- who sensationally eliminated Manchester United from last season's competition -- went out after losing 1-0 at Romanians CFR-Cluj.

Tuesday's victors will be joined in the group phase draw by Malaga, Sporting Braga, Anderlecht, Dinamo Zagreb and BATE Barisov, who came through their play-off ties on Tuesday, as well as the 22 teams to have already qualified.

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Speaking 2 languages also benefits low-income children

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Living in poverty is often accompanied by conditions that can negatively influence cognitive development. Is it possible that being bilingual might counteract these effects? Although previous research has shown that being bilingual enhances executive functioning in middle-class children, less is known about how it affects lower income populations.

In a study forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychological scientist Pascale Engel de Abreu of the University of Luxembourg and colleagues examine the effects of speaking two languages on the executive functioning of low-income children. "Low-income children represent a vulnerable population," says Engel de Abreu. "Studying cognitive processes in this population is of great societal importance and represents a significant advancement in our understanding of childhood development."

Existing research, conducted with older bilingual children and bilingual adults from middle class backgrounds, suggests that knowing two languages may have different effects on different aspects of executive functioning: while being bilingual seems to have a positive influence on the ability to direct and focus attention (control), researchers have found no such benefit for how people encode and structure knowledge in memory (representation). Engel de Abreu and her colleagues hypothesized that this pattern would also hold for younger bilingual children who were low-income.

A total of 80 second graders from low-income families participated in the study. Half of the children were first or second generation immigrants to Luxembourg, originally from Northern Portugal, who spoke both Luxembourgish and Portuguese on a daily basis. The other half of the children lived in Northern Portugal and spoke only Portuguese.

The researchers first tested the children's vocabularies by asking them to name items presented in pictures. Both groups completed the task in Portuguese and the bilingual children also completed the task in Luxembourgish.

To examine how the children represented knowledge in memory, the researchers asked them to find a missing piece that would complete a specific geometric shape. The researchers also measured the children's memory, using two different tasks to see how much visual information the children could keep in mind at a given time.

The children then participated in two tasks that looked at their ability to direct and focus their attention when distractions were present. In the first task, they had to find and match 20 pairs of spacecrafts as quickly as possible, a task that depended on their ability to ignore all the non-matching spacecrafts. In the second task, the children were presented with a row of yellow fish on a computer screen and they had to press a button to indicate which direction the fish in the center was facing. The other fish either pointed in the same or opposite direction of the fish in the middle.

Although the bilingual children knew fewer words than their monolingual peers, and did not show an advantage for representation tasks, they performed better on the control tasks than did the monolingual children, just as the researchers hypothesized.

"This is the first study to show that, although they may face linguistic challenges, minority bilingual children from low-income families demonstrate important strengths in other cognitive domains," says Engel de Abreu.

The researchers believe that the findings could inform efforts to reduce the achievement gap between children of different socioeconomic backgrounds. "Our study suggests that intervention programs that are based on second language teaching are a fruitful avenue for future research," says Engel de Abreu. "Teaching a foreign language does not involve costly equipment, it widens children's linguistic and cultural horizons, and it fosters the healthy development of executive control."

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Morbus

The whole city stank of rotting bodies. They littered the streets like so many leaves, a feast for the birds who flocked en masse to gobble up the sudden excess of carrion. A fat vulcher was nibbling daintily at a thin man?s swollen lips, flapping its wings at any smaller birds who dared approach his prize. The man?s eyes were already gone, pecked out and devoured. It was a macabre scene, thought Quil, but she had already become accustomed to the death around her. She had walked the roads for two days and not found another living soul. Her pockets were filled to bursting with the silver and gold she had looted from corpses before she realized there was no point. There was no one left to buy and sell anymore; only her. Only Quil Purcell, a woman lost in a sea of the dead.

Yet she still couldn?t bring herself to empty her pockets, even though they were so heavy that they weighed her dress down and made her hem drag in the dust. She had found no survivors, but perhaps outside the walls of the city life still flourished. She planned to walk to the gates, find a horse or two, and travel as far as she had to in order to find another living soul. When she did she was going to be rich in gold, silver, and jewels. But first, she thought, turning toward the castle, she had to procure some jewels.

The sun was falling fast in the sky and Quil had no choice but to stop and find a place to rest for the night. For all that she kept a brave face during the day, being alone in a city full of corpses was too unnerving for her in the darkness. Night brought the terror of ten thousand dead bodies, ten thousand corpses rotting and stinking and glaring at her, the only survivor. They hated her, she felt. The dead were jealous of her life and wanted her to join them. As soon as the sun crept low in the sky, she liked to find an empty home, lock all the doors, and pretend she wasn?t the only survivor of the sudden disaster that had struck everyone else. It had happened so quickly, reflected Quil as she pulled open the door of a small but neat home with a thatch roof. It had taken only days for everyone to die and leave her all alone.

Her nose scrunched up in sudden revulsion. The fragrant rot of something dead and putrid drifted toward her. Tentatively she crept forward, a hand over her mouth and nose to block the odor. The main room of the home was clear, but there was a door at the back. Her hands took hold of the cold, iron handle and pulled the door open.

The sight before her made her heave, and soon the bread and sausage she had eaten at midday was splattered across the floor. Hanging off the bed was a young woman, or what had once been a young woman. Some kind of animal had gotten hold of her and pulled her body half out of her bed, then had eaten most of her face and ripped her bowels from her stomach.

Weak and nauseous, Quil crossed the room, stepping over the pool of vomit she had made to grasp the dead, half-eaten woman under the shoulders. She heaved again, but her stomach was empty now and nothing more came up her throat. With a strong tug she pulled the woman out of the bed and began dragging her out of the room. Quil held her breath and didn?t release it till she?d pushed the body out the front door onto the street and closed it firmly behind her. The woman sucked in a breath, chest heaving with breathlessness and fright, her hand over her pounding heart. Touching the bodies was the worst part about being surrounded by them. The first day hadn?t been so terrible, even when it had been shocking and fresh. At least the day they died the bodies weren?t ripe. Now they were beginning to rot and decay, and half of them had been picked at by some kind of animal.

There was a deep copper washing basin in the bedroom, but she had to brave hopping over the woman she had moved to go back and forth to the well to fill it. She removed her soiled dress and sweat-stained chemise, stepping naked into the cold water. It chilled her tanned, freckled skin, making goosebumps rise on her flesh and the hairs on her arms stand up. The cold was a small price to pay to be clean, she decided, lowering her whole body into the basin. She hadn?t bathed in days, and the grime felt thick on her skin. Moving the woman?s half-eaten corpse had made her feel sick; she hoped bathing would rid her of that. Quil dunked her head under the water and scrubbed soap into her scalp, pulling the suds through her thick, unruly curls. She rubbed soap into her hands, which were perpetually stained an ill shade of gray-purple from dying wool till just past her wrists, but it made no real difference on the stains that had accumulated from a lifetime of work. She scrubbed till her skin was pink and sore, then poured water over her head till her hair was free of soap.

Stepping out of the copper basin, Quil dripped onto the uneven stone floor, naked and shivering. Her clothes were in a heap and she picked them up, bringing them to her nose. They smelled like rotting dead, just like the rest of the city. They slipped from her fingers, a puddle of rough brown cloth she had forgotten. With no thought of respect for the dead woman she had hoisted out of her own home, Quil rummaged through the chest at the foot of the bed. Inside were blankets, men?s clothing, and at the very bottom a pale green dress and clean white chemise. It was simple of cut and rough of cloth, but it was a sight better than anything she owned and it smelled clean.

With the dead woman?s comb, Quil worked the tangles from her thick, light brown curls, which liked to stand around up around her head in a messy halo when dry. She braided it into a plait that hung over her shoulder to her waist and tied it with a strip of cloth torn from her soiled dress. She slipped the chemise over her head and draped the clean dress over the top of the chest to wear the next day, then pulled the blanket from the bed and curled up on the floor. The bed, though it had a good, thick straw mattress, was covered in congealed blood and she wouldn?t go near it.

The room grew dark as the sun disappeared behind the buildings that crowded the city. Quil curled up tightly in her blanket, knees pulled to her chest. She fell asleep in the fetal position, her tan, freckled arms wrapped around her legs. When she sun came up she would go to the castle and steal whatever valuables she could carry, then get out the city of the dead.

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First Steps toward a Robotic Leg Suit for Paraplegics [Video]

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A multinational team has made progress in developing an exoskeleton?now being tested in monkeys?that might be used one day by the handicapped to walk again

By Gary Stix

Image: Duke University/Miguel Nicolelis

Miguel Nicolelis and his colleagues at Duke University and a number of other institutions worldwide are working feverishly on a robotic suit, an exoskeleton, intended to let a handicapped teenager walk onto the pitch at the 2014 World Cup Soccer to deliver the first ceremonial kick. Eventually this technology is intended for general use.

One preliminary test of the technology shows a monkey outfitted with the robotic suit moving one leg. For the animal to accomplish this task, signals from a computer that mimics the locomotion pattern of a rhesus monkey cause the robotic limb to move the animal's leg. This demonstration shows that this early prototype of the exoskeleton can exert enough force to carry the monkey. Soon, the researchers will block electrical signals from the animal's spinal cord to allow signals to be transmitted directly from electrodes implanted in the monkey's brain to a computer for processing and then to the exoskeleton to initiate ambulatory movements.

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Bluegrass for Babies is BACK! ? Surviving Motherhood

We LOVE supporting Bluegrass for Babies and it is BACK!! Please see below for their press release, giving all the details for this must visit local event!

2012 Bluegrass for Babies Set for Sept. 22 with New Venue, New Fundraising Goals

CINCINNATI, OH?Bluegrass for Babies, Inc., a local non-profit organization that strives to improve children?s health by raising funds for the Perinatal Institute of Cincinnati Children?s Hospital Medical Center, recently kicked off 2012 event-planning and fundraising efforts. In three years, Bluegrass for Babies has grown exponentially, collectively raising $45,000 for Cincinnati Children?s. Building on that success, the organization is making strategic changes in their 2012 venue and fundraising goals to allow for more growth and greater gifts.

?This year, our goal is to raise $50,000 for Cincinnati Children?s,? said co-founder Matt Schneider. ?We?re investing more time, energy and resources than ever. We are planning for 5,000 attendees. To accommodate the attendance, we?ve decided to move the concert downtown. Our new?location at Sawyer Point will accommodate the significant growth we?ve seen year-on-year.?

Bluegrass for Babies is bringing in a nationally recognized band?Greensky Bluegrass?to headline the fundraising concert. ?We?re thrilled to host Greensky Bluegrass. They?ve got a unique take on bluegrass music,? said Schneider. ?They don?t just replicate traditional bluegrass tunes. They?re progressive and fun.? The quintet from Kalamazoo, Michigan was recently reviewed by Rolling Stone?s Benjy Eisen. He wrote, ?They?re representing the genre for a whole new generation.?

Even the date for the 2012 event was a strategic decision. The 2012 Bluegrass for Babies concert will take place Saturday, September 22 from 4-10 p.m.,which will coincide with Cincinnati?s annual Oktoberfest weekend and a Cincinnati Reds home baseball game. ?More excitement and more entertainment can only mean more reason for families from near and far to venture to downtown Cincinnati that weekend,? said Matt.

Also being heightened this year is the organization?s ?Healthy Kids for a Brighter Future? initiative, which takes shape through educational outreach points and social media channels. Leading up to the concert, local health experts share their knowledge about getting kids to eat right and keeping kids active. During the concert, children of all ages are entertained by healthy activities?soccer, gymnastics, music and crafts?while parents learn about the importance of a healthy lifestyle at educational booths.

WHAT:???????????????????????????????????????????????? Bluegrass for Babies

WHEN:???????????????????????????????????????????????? Saturday,September 22, 2012

WHERE:?????????????????????????????????????????????? P&GPavilion,Sawyer Point?Cincinnati

TIME:??????????????????????????????????????????????????? 4-10p.m.

WHO BENEFITS???????????????????????????? Perinatal Institute of CincinnatiChildren?s Hospital Medical Center

SUGGESTED DONATION:????????? Tickets for pre-sale Online:Adults $15, Children Free

Tickets for sale at the Gate:????? ?Adults $20; Children Free

PARKING:??????????????????????????????????????????? $4 at the Sawyer Point parking lot

Located at 801 East Pete Rose Way (intersection of Pete Rose Way and Eggleston Ave.)

MUSICIANS:

Greensky?Bluegrass

The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars

Jennifer Ellis

EVENT SPONSORS:?

Simple Skin Care

Green BEAN Delivery

Comey & Shepherd

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management

Pampers

TAS Foundation

FARMERS MARKET SPONSOR:

Whole Foods

MEDIA SPONSORS:

Cincinnati Family Magazine

WNKU

?About Bluegrass for Babies, Inc.

Bluegrass for Babies, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization that strives to improve children?s health. We achieve our mission through creating fund-raising?events to benefit?Cincinnati Children?s Hospital Medical Center, by partnering with other?Non Pro?ts?benefiting children?s health, and through educating our constituents on both western and holistic family health practices.

Mt. Lookout residents Matt and Anne Schneider founded Bluegrass for Babies in 2009. They were inspired to give back to Cincinnati Children?s following the life-saving surgery their son Nicholas received when he was two days old. The annual fundraising event is a unique and fun charitable bluegrass concert, designed for the entire family. While its priority is to raise funds for Cincinnati Children?s, the organization has an equally important mission to educate kids and parents about the importance of a healthy and active lifestyle.

?More Information

The Schneider family?s story: ?Stories of Hope & Giving?

Website: www.bluegrassforbabies.com

Facebook: Bluegrass for Babies

Twitter: @bluegrassbabies

Hope to see you there! What a GREAT event to support!!!!

Early Abuse Weakens Adult Response to Skin Cancer ...

Clearly growing up with abusive parents is no great shakes no matter how you look at it.

Early abuse has been correlated with later-life depression, stunted brain development, anxiety, alcohol abuse?and I?m just getting started.

But, even knowing how damaging early childhood abuse is, a study caught my eye that surprised me, and brought home abuse?s devastating potential in a new way.

For it seems as if early childhood abuse can weaken the body?s immune system and make it more susceptible to skin cancer, specifically?Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer.

Just this past June researchers published their findings in the Archives of General Psychiatry in an article entitled ?Basal Cell Carcinoma:Stressful Life Events and the Tumor Environment.?

Researchers took a 3-pronged approach.

First they studied 91 subjects with basal cell carcinoma, and administered the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Questionnaire [you can see a detailed peer-reviewed article on the questionnaire ?here] which?assesses parental neglect and antipathy, physical abuse, and sexual abuse up to the age of 17. This was?o discover if the patients had experienced parental abuse, and, if so, to what extent.

As a second component to the study, the researchers then assessed patients with the Life and Events Difficult Schedule, created by Brown and Harris, which is merely (as you?d figure) a measurement of the stressfulness of various life events. to found out if they had experienced a stressful event within the previous year. (?Stressful Events? qualifiers included divorce, job loss, or death of a loved one.)

Finally they biopsied the tumors and measured the tissue levels of mRNA located on the immune cells (that sounds very hyper-scientific and fancy, but fundamentally mRNA just means?Messenger RNA, which is a form of RNA that codes for amino acids. This measurement ?indicates immune response to the BCC tumors, and it seems we can all wrap our heads around that.).

Armed with that their scales and immunology reports, the researchers looked for an interaction between parental abuse and a stressful life event in the year preceding in order to predict immune response to the BCC.

And, sure enough, the relationship existed. Let them factor out age, gender, history?of depression?even current depression?those who had had a stressful life event within the past year, if that was confounded by emotional mistreatment by a parent, they had a significantly poorer immune response to the tumors than those who ?just? got a lousy hand the year before.

They write,

?Among BCC patients who had experienced a severe life event within the past year, those who were emotionally maltreated by their mothers (P?=?.007) or fathers (P?=?.02) as children had a poorer immune response to the BCC tumor. Emotional maltreatment was unrelated to BCC immune responses among those who did not experience a severe life event. Depressive symptoms were not associated with the local tumor immune response.?

Maternal maltreatment scores inversely relate to decrease in immune mRNA scores

It?s a breakthrough study, because if emotional maltreatment at any early age can affect ?BCC?well, then, what cancers?can?t it effect, some much more difficult to manage to BCC?

David Spiegel, M.D., associate chair of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and a psycho-oncologist, told Psychiatric News,

?while basal cell carcinoma is a relatively benign cancer, there is increasing evidence that immune function is crucial in cancer surveillance, especially in regard to the growth of metastases.?

But as in so many studies that find fascinating answers to cleverly posed questions, we?re left here again with an unanswerd question that lies at the very base of all this work and the fascinating findings.

We have progressed light years in our treatment of cancers and our approach to tumors?but a paper like this indicates that undercutting the best of care is the patient?s early years, spent denigrated, demeaned, disheartened.

What, I?d like to pose to the?National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Gilbert and Kathryn Mitchell Endowment, who so generously study, what do we do now, knowing how damaging early maltreatment is?

We don?t need a medicine or a charm or a drug company working over-time to develop something new; we need a systemic change in how parents treat their children, and how we as a society put up with those adults who mis-treat their children.

Is it possible that all the billions of dollars poured into cancer research each year will never achieve all we hope for?because, at the core of the family unit, there is a dissolution that precludes future health?

And, if so, who will put up the funding, and who will dedicate their lives to the research, to making childhood a safe and protected place for our children to inhabit?saving them from multiple diseases down the road, and improving their immunity enough so that they?ll have a fair fight, should cancer beckon them under its devastating wing?

Source: http://candidaabrahamson.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/early-abuse-weakens-adult-response-to-skin-cancer/

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This Is What the iPad Mini Might Look Like [Apple]

A smaller iPad is supposedly, probably, maybe coming. The smoke on the rumored 7.85-inch iPad Mini is so thick now that it seems like it's going to be a real thing by Cupertino. But with new rumors of it taking a different shape than the iPad, what would it look like? Maybe like this. More »

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The Platinum Girl Celebrity Blog | Relationship Love Gossip Rumors ...

A friend of mine recently said that people with divorced parents do better at marriage than those whose parents are still together. She felt people from divorced homes are willing to work harder on their marriages and less likely to become unnerved with bumps in the road. Conversely, if you've grown up in a home where your parents relationship is somewhat idyllic, you expect your relationships and marriage to go as smoothly as theirs.

After listening to her logic, I thought she had a point. Now, I don't agree that any one group works harder on their marriage than another. Yet, I acknowledge that those from divorced homes accustomed to turmoil can have highly successful marriages.

I reflected on our conversation when reading an interview with Pink in Billboard magazine. Her parents divorced when she was 9 and she wrote Family Portrait at 21. She said, "I tend to hold onto things. I'm still exorcising some of those demons. I'm in a relationship that I've been in for 10 years and it's never going to be perfect."Her words caught my attention because she's open about how influential her parent's split has been in her life. The way I interpreted her words is that because she accepts it won't be perfect, she doesn't expect it, and thus, isn't disappointed that it isn't. This translates to being steadfast when it comes to weathering marital storms.

Pink's words are relevant for my readers because those from divorced homes might be concerned about marriage. Several of my clients are "marriage averse" because their parents split and the high divorce rates. They're terrified of having a failed marriage. Because they didn't come from a healthy home environment, they worry about being emotionally fit enough to handle marriage.

My first response to this is always complimentary. It's great to concern yourself with having a successful marriage. I appreciate that they don't want to rush into anything. What I encourage them to conquer, though, is their self-doubt.?

Coming from a divorced home isn't proof positive you won't be a suitable spouse. This is simply because of the resources now available for married couples. What you grew up with isn't necessarily who you are as an adult if you choose differently. Your fate is separate from that of your parents.?

You aren't on your own in marriage unless you want it that way. I'm not suggesting marriage counseling for couples who don't need it. Yet, maybe a wife struggling to keep a lid on her temper can find solace in an online forum. In other words, there are lots of places to go for help, even if it's for venting!

Those reading this who come from divorced homes, have faith your tenacity will carry you far in a marriage. You'll be surprised at your determination. For those not from a divorced home who worry their relationship isn't as easy as their parent's, have faith, too. Every relationship has different strains. Allow yourself that uncertainty and the answers will come more easily.

Before ending this post, I want to briefly mention I'm not pushing marriage on those who don't believe in it. I do think relationships are the best when a man wants to marry a woman. However, the purpose of this post is to encourage people to not underestimate themselves. Like Pink, you just might wake up one day with ten married years under your belt and think, "wow, I'm actually doing pretty good!"

Tell me what you think! Can coming from a divorced home make you better suited for marriage?

Until next time...

Shine like Platinum!
Vanessa

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Miguel Cabrera and Albert Pujols sit with injuries

Los Angeles Angels' Albert Pujols (5) rubs his leg as he stands on third base next to third base coach Dino Ebel during the fourth inning against the Boston Red Sox in a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. Pujols was replaced in the bottom of the inning. (AP Photo/Jim Davis, Boston Globe) NO SALES, MAGS OUT, INTERNET OUT BOSTON HERALD OUT QUINCY OUT

Los Angeles Angels' Albert Pujols (5) rubs his leg as he stands on third base next to third base coach Dino Ebel during the fourth inning against the Boston Red Sox in a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. Pujols was replaced in the bottom of the inning. (AP Photo/Jim Davis, Boston Globe) NO SALES, MAGS OUT, INTERNET OUT BOSTON HERALD OUT QUINCY OUT

Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera talks with manager Jim Leyland and athletic trainer Steve Carter during the second inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, in Detroit. Cabrera left the game. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

DETROIT (AP) ? The Detroit Tigers and Los Angeles Angels each sat a star in the hopes of keeping them healthy for rest of the season.

Miguel Cabrera and Albert Pujols were not in the lineup because of injuries Sunday in the Angels-Tigers series finale, giving them two days off because both teams are off Monday.

Cabrera played in Detroit's first 126 games this season. The third baseman has a sore right ankle that limited him to being a designated hitter on Friday and Saturday.

"What's best for Miguel is best for the Tigers," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said.

Pujols hasn't played since Wednesday when he left a game against Boston in the fourth inning with tightness in his right calf.

"I'm feeling better," he said. "But they want to give me another day off ? whatever they want to do."

The Tigers and Angels are both potentially vying for an AL wild card with 30-plus games left in the regular season. They need Cabrera and Pujols to avoid going from having day-to-day soreness to a long-term injury.

Cabrera ranks among the AL's best with a .324 batting average, 32 homers and 106 RBIs. Pujols is hitting .283 and has 28 homers and 86 RBIs.

"When Albert is ready to play, he's going to play," Los Angeles manager Mike Scioscia said. "We're not holding him out to get him ready for the stretch. If he was available and could play, he would be playing."

Associated Press

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Scrapbooking Page Ideas to Help You Get Started | ArticloPedia

Sometimes, memories just slip by if we don?t do something to preserve them. And one of the best ways to preserve them is by making a scrapbook where we can safeguard the happy moments you have shared with special people in your life. To begin with your scrapbooking project, you will need scrapbooking page ideas to help you create the most creative one possible. You can browse a lot of them over the web, and this article is a great way to start. Here are some tips and ideas for creative and unique scrapbook ideas.

First of all you might want to consider getting a theme for each album. For example, your motif is blue so incorporate it in all your designs. The designs after all depend on you and you can pretty much get scrapbooking page ideas anywhere. You might want to try out the traditional way or you might want to try digital scrapbooking. Your scrapbook might include photographs, clippings, mementos and many more. You might also paste letters and notes that have been given to you by special people in your life.

If you are making a scrapbook for your family, it would be nice to reserve a page or two for each member of the family. This can include his achievements in life, description about the person, likes and dislikes and many more. This is a very interesting project to make that will surely bring tears to your eyes when you look at it again years from now.

Designing a scrapbook doesn?t need to be very expensive. Get scrapbooking page ideas on how you can create one that would not leave your wallet thin. You can find tools and materials around you home such as old magazines. You can cut out pictures and letters and add it as a design to you scrapbook. Try to mix and match everything but do not overdo it as it may appear unpleasant to the eyes.

Browse for websites. The good thing is, there are websites over the Internet that specializes in scrapbooking and they offer really great scrapbooking page ideas. They also supply materials which you can use to get you started. Well, if you have enough budget, you can try out this idea. You might also want to consider getting your older kids involve in scrapbook making since this serves as a great bonding time for you and them. It will also encourage them to use their imagination and will bring about the creativity in them.

Scrapbooking is such an enjoyable and fascinating hobby and all the more fun if you have the passion for arts and crafts. It makes a good gift to someone. Every time they open it, it will bring back all the memories that seems like it only happened yesterday. It can keep the memories alive year after year. And it will always remind you of special events in your life. It is also one way of showing your family and friends how much you treasure the memories you shared with them. So start preserving your memories now with scrapbooking!

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playground politics In a home-schooling setting , a lot of methods can be employed in to guarantee that a child who receive the type of learning most likely to help him or her to become a morally upright , well-learned individual Things that may be taken for granted in an educational institution like as Leeming placed it , recycling , is a practice that ought to be inculcated but instead schools tend to preach and forget If we would really want to look at the objective grounds , then perhaps we ought to refer to statistics , where it states that home-schooled children tend to attain higher scores than mainstream schooled kids The main advantage of home education is one-to-one teaching , which allows parents to adapt to their children ?s individual learning needs Children of all ages are educated at home , some going on to take General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE ) or other examinations

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This aims to respond to the negative connotations ascribed to home-schooling , in reference to the article written by a home schooling father named Mark Leeming which served as his rebuttal to the claim that children taught at home by their parents and /or carers miss a lot of benefits from public schools One of the main reasons a family would chooses to educate their children at home , according to Leeming is in to teach them of the fundamentals

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Today , we shall focus on the convictions held by home schooling parents that schools imbibes a sense of indoctrination and exists within a system that is flawed in itself A lot of arguments have been raised regarding the choice of parents to teach their children at home rather than send them off to school

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The type of children being home schooled can generally be divided into two groups , those who have never been enrolled in school and those who were withdrawn by their parents It is important to note that there are different reasons why parents would choose to home educated their children

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Simple , in their insistence of their so-called progressive measures and system of education they are in fact caught up in a single path of thinking A home schooled child is as much exposed to the views of others it does not necessarily follow the views of their parents

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Paper Topic: advantage study home schooling Home-Schooling (A Worthy Alternative to Mainstream Education Home education has become a option for a growing number of families nowadays

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Classrooms share a view of social issues in such a way as to teach children tolerance when in fact there comes a point that they would have to take sides Home schooling is not cheap in fact parents have to carry the burden of buying the textbooks , exercise manuals , and other instructional materials

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Public schools tend to overlook the significance of the little details a child has to learn in to make it in the real world ? as the author would put it Further , in providing home education , parents are able to render lessons that they deem their children to need , and even equip the latter with certain tools that would be helpful for them to grow up as upright individuals

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It is a fact that prior to the introduction of Universal education in the 19th century , home-schooling was the way to go about in teaching children

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In fact if taken under the light , it seems that home education offers a type of learning wherein holistic development is more possibly attained Reference ___ , Home Education , In Encarta Encyclopedia , premium ed

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