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Nathan Daniel: A December To Remember....

This has truly been an amazing month, filled with the love of friends, family and the Spirit of Christmas.? It was?our first Christmas in our new home and we certainly spent a great deal of time time decking the halls!

We began our Christmas season with?a gingerbread house and?tree decorating party!? We had so much?fun kicking off the season with?a few?friends and family.?

?Everyone?helped decorate our 10'?white pine tree ~ it was certain?done with?lots of 'spirits' and Christmas love.

The finished product was simply gorgeous!

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?After we?eat pizza?and finished the Christmas tree, it was time to decorate the gingerbread houses and trains with the kids.? If you've ever embarked on this type of holiday tradition, you know how much children reaaly enjoy this type of project.? Who doesn't love frosting, tons of different candy and being able to use your creative juices to construct your own Christmas palace!?


Unfortunately, Nathan didn't have a nap, so?he fell fast asleep before the gingerbread decorating began, but we saved him lots of supplies to work on his very own Christmas train.

This very well may be incorporated into our annual Christmas cookie exchange cocktail party next year, so everyone can partake in the fun - together.????

Brunch with Santa at McGrievy's in Waterford has become a tradition in our home?for the?past two?years, since Nathan now knows who Ho Ho is.? This year, we were blessed to enjoy our morning with Nathan's cousin Lily and her little friend, Alex.? The food was great and the kids had a great time?visiting with Santa and receiving their first gift of the season.??

Our next Christmas adventure featured?hot chocolate and?the Polar Express!!?Nathan is such a huge fan of trains, this was a must-do activity again this year.?We went on the Polar Express in Utica last year, but were less than thrilled?with the long drive (3-hours round trip), long train ride (2-hours) and?cold chocolate rather than hot, so this year?had to be different.??For the second season in a row, the Polar Express is offered in Saratoga, which is super close to home and last year I was unable to purchase tickets because I waited to long.? Not this year.? Although, I waited long enough that we were only able to buy dome seats for a Thursday evening,?but I wanted those seats becasue?it's?like sitting in a booth at?a restaurant rather than a regular train seat.? If you are taking this train, buy the dome seats,?so worth it, but hard to get, so purchase your tickets early!

We had a great time on this train!? We brought pizza?and enjoyed dinner on the train.? Our fellow passengers were wondering where their pizza was and the conductor said, we were the second family he saw bring a pizza on the train!?It was dinner-time and the kids needed to eat! :-)??We played holiday trivia, read stories, sang Christmas carols (jingle bells - Nathan's favorite Christmas song),?drank hot and delicious coco?served in our very own Polar Express mugs, ate?a yummy sugar cookie with sprinkles, visited the North Pole and had a wonderful visit from Santa and his elf, Snowflake!??Saratoga does it right!? Althoug, I'm not one bit surprised.??We will certainly do this again next year and dome seats are a must!? I've already put a reminder in my?2013 calendar, so we can order them early and get a weekend date.

Our next Christmas adventure was our annual?Christmas party with my side of the family.? We usually rotate homes and this year?we offered our home and planned a really fun day!? We?began with a family card game tradition?~?three/thirteen (it's sort of like rummy).??Every adult in?our family knows how to play this game because we played it a lot?growing up, so we thought it would be super fun to?play as adults while the kids made some?fun?Christmas projects with Miss Cole.?
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When it comes to Christmas projects, I really try to choose?something?meaningful -?that we'll enjoy for years to come.? I'm really proud of this years' selections!!? We made hand print?snowman Christmas tree ornaments,?paper snowflakes?in memory of the?Sandy Hook Elementary victims and hand print?Rudolf the reindeer hats.

These ornaments were super easy and turned out absolutely adorable!? With just some red and green Christmas balls, white fabric paint and markers and you have yourself a personalized keepsake?ornament.? The kid's hands are painted with?white fabric paint and then they grasp the?ornament, leaving behind?their hand print, which is used to make the snowmen.? Thank you Miss Cole for all your work on these ornaments?~ we love them!!??

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The next project was: Snowflakes for?Sandy Hook.? The elementary school's PTA is constructing a Winter Wonderland at the school for the children's return?on January 12th, and they've asked people to make paper snowflakes to hang everywhere in the school, so it looks like a winter wonderland and?because no two snowflakes are alike.

We even asked the adults to make a snowflake and they?came out awesome!? My 80+ year old?grandmother?even made a snowflake for the children.?

These snowflakes will be?mailed tomorrow.

Our final festivities began on the night before Christmas with Aunt Sandy and family, who were able to schedule?a special visit from the oh-so-busy Santa himself!? ??




After we left Aunt Sandy's, we had to get everything ready for Santa to come down?our chimney,?including test driving the merchandise!? :-)


Christmas?day was super fun and Nathan had a great time opening and enjoying his gifts and spending time with family.









?We certainly had a December to remember and are looking forward to bringing in the new year,? especially considering a certain little someone is about to turn five years old!!!? I can't believe it!

Stay tuned....

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This Milk Production Was Brought To You By A Robot

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  Milking Parlor, 2012: Two people are needed to milk twice a day, 300 cows.

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  Milking Robot I, 2012: One milking robot milks three times per day, 60 cows. The cows are in a stable, in which they can move around freely. They can use the robot whenever they need to. No human needs to be present.

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  Lettuce, 2011: Lettuce is grown in a stacking system to provide a maximum use of space. Plants grow inside of plastic trays without soil. A conveyor belt is moving the plants to ensure they get all round sunlight. The whole growing process is computer controlled.

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  Tomatoes I, 2012: In order to have total control over the nutrients and the irrigation, tomatoes are planted in sterile material such as rock wool and not in soil. By doing so, the tomatoes are, according to the growers, less likely infected by diseases, a smaller amount of pesticide is needed and the yield can be increased.

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  Tomatoes II, 2011: In order to consume locally grown tomatoes in ... the U.K. or Germany, the tomatoes need to be produced in heated greenhouses. ... To produce in more sustainable ways and to keep the cost of energy low, the greenhouse above is heated by the waste heat from a nearby nuclear power station.

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  Apple Tree, 2011: Modern apple growers use apple varieties that are grafted onto Dwarfing Rootstocks. Developed at a research station in the U.K., these ... trees need less water and less space than traditional apple trees, which makes high density planting possible. The fruits are more accessible and easier to pick, because the trees are smaller.

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  Eggplants, 2012: A computer manages precisely the irrigation, the nutrients given to the plants and also the climate inside the greenhouse. Automatically windows open, sunscreens move, and waste, water and nutrients are collected, purified, and recycled.

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  Cress, 2011: Cress, tomatoes, cucumbers, or lettuce are grown in closed systems just with LED lights. There is no sunlight and no direct exchange of air with the outside. Day and night, summer and winter stop existing. Humans are able to determine the shape, taste and color of plants and fruits. They can be grown anywhere from the desert to inside of restaurants and supermarkets.

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  Strawberries II, 2012: Strawberry crops are grown on tabletop-raised beds. The tabletop system makes it easier to pick the fruits and eases the weed and pest control. A leaf and sap analysis determines the nutrient's compound, which is fed with the irrigation water. To accelerate the growth of the plants, growers above add CO2 from a close-by Shell refinery.

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  Mushrooms, 2012: To allow an all-year-round production of mushrooms and to increase the yield, mushrooms are grown in a microclimate inside growing rooms. A stacking system maximizes the production per square meter.

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  Chicken, 2011: Since the mid-1990s the consumption of chicken has increased by 75 percent worldwide. Chicken are often reared in barns. One chicken barn has the capacity to rear 50,000 chickens.

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We all have an inkling of how our food is grown these days, but increasingly we don't really know what it looks like. You'd probably recognize a tomato plant or a cornfield ? but these photos offer a perspective that a lot of us haven't seen.

Photographer Freya Najade is exploring the age-old question of how humans harness nature ? a question as old as agriculture itself. But what she uniquely captures here is the latest chapter in the evolution of food production, in which technology ? in the form of robots and computers ? is the central character.

"It was a bit bizarre, observing cows milked by robots without any humans present," Najade writes from London, where she's based. Bizarre, she says, but not all bad:

"I have seen new technologies that allow, in certain aspects, a more environmentally friendly production. For instance, in a greenhouse in which waste, water and nutrients are collected, purified and recycled, the production becomes more environmentally friendly because less water and nutrients are needed."

The fact is there are just so many of us to feed. And it's going to take some real ingenuity to feed the billions more joining us ? even if that means growing lettuce under LED lights in a building in a desert. Though industrial-scale mushroom production is nothing new, in Najade's photos it looks a lot more like a science experiment than the romanticized agriculture of bucolic farms. But they're both, effectively, always a kind of experiment.

Who's making the decisions about how how we'll be growing the next generation of fruits and vegetables? I hope there's another photographer out there who wants to find out. For now, though, we have Najade, who's forcing us to ask, "Remember when humans actually milked cows?"

Maybe one day we'll be asking: "Remember cows?"

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/28/168201889/this-milk-production-was-brought-to-you-by-a-robot?ft=1&f=1007

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Israeli troops kill Canadian soldier after shelling/bombing UN outpost, incident report "quietly removed"

The Defence Department has quietly removed from the Internet a report into the killing of a Canadian military officer by Israeli forces, a move the soldier?s widow says is linked to the Conservative government?s reluctance to criticize Israel for any wrongdoing.

Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three other United Nations observers were killed in 2006 when the Israeli military targeted their small outpost with repeated artillery barrages as well as an attack by a fighter aircraft.

IN early 2008, the Defence Department posted on its website a 67-page report from the Canadian Forces board of inquiry into the killing. The board found Hess-von Kruedener?s death was preventable and caused by the Israeli military.

But less than a year later, the report was quietly removed from the DND website and has since remained off-limits to the public through official channels.

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China requires real names for internet and phone sign-ups, handovers for illegal posts

It's no secret that China keeps a tight lid on internet freedoms, and it's not about to lighten up today. The government has passed regulations requiring that locals use their real names whenever they sign up for internet- and phone-based services (not just the access itself); while those were already common practices, there's now the real threat of punishment behind them. Anyone who clears those hurdles also has to be more mindful of what they write. If a page or post is deemed "illegal information," service hosts now have to delete its public presence, archive it and pass the content along to authorities. The state unsurprisingly argues that those who already stay on the sunny side of the law have nothing to fear from the new measures (where have we heard that before?), but the reassurances won't be much help to privacy advocates or those challenging corruption.

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Apple iWatch rumors surface again, this time with Intel attached

The Apple iWatch smartwatch is the subject of renewed rumor and speculation this morning, with Intel of all companies now being attached to the project. Low power Bluetooth 4.0 is along for the ride as well, of course, so it can instantly pair with an iPhone or iPad, as well as a 1.5-inch display, and a supposed release window pegged at the first half of 2013. In other words, soon. All this according to TGBUS (Google Translated):

Supply chain, said Intel is designed for Apple Bluetooth smart watches, this product is RiTdisplay 1.5-inch OLED screen, other aspects of the supply chain, with a rhenium ocean of OGS encore indium tin oxide transparent conductive (ITO) glass.

The Intel angle here is interesting. While Apple's Mac computer lines currently all still have Intel inside, Apple hasn't done anything significant with Intel on their iOS device line. Likewise, the OLED display rumor, as Apple has thus far eschewed that technology for LED.

Rumors of an iWatch, while not as persistent as iTV television rumors, began picking up speed when Apple announced the square, more iOS-looking 2010 iPod nano and Steve Jobs quipped that board members wanted to wear them as watches. Speculation immediately leapt to a future filled with light, wearable iOS devices, piggy-backing off the more powerful devices in our pockets and bags, passing on Siri instructions and getting back our notifications and other data.

Many watchband accessories and flights of fancy later, the iPod nano finally gained a Bluetooth radio in 2012... just as Apple changed its shape back to a far less watch-friendly rectangle. That could be a sign of Apple moving away from wearable iOS devices, or just shifting the nano away from wearability to leave room for something else. (Also, head fake.)

Apple is increasingly seen by financial markets, and the media, as a hit-driven business, and the moment they announce one new product, questions immediately spring up about "what's next?!". The iPad mini has shipped, so TVs, watches, and all manner of other products are ripe for the research notes and rumor mills alike.

Given the popularity of the nano-as-watch, and of other connected watch-style devices, like the television, it's hard to imagine that Apple doesn't have a project or prototype or several in the labs. Also like the television, that's a far cry from going to market with an final, polished product.

But it does raise the question -- do you want an iWatch from Apple?

Source: TGBUS via Tech.163, The Next Web.

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Recall of More Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Tablets

Dec. 26, 2012 -- More lots of the combination painkiller hydrocodone-acetaminophen are being recalled by Mylan Institutional. The new alert follows a nationwide recall of 101 lots of the drugs issued by Qualitest Pharmaceuticals that occurred earlier this month.

The FDA says the newly recalled lots were manufactured by Qualitest Pharmaceuticals and were repackaged and distributed by Mylan Institutional.?The three lots include: ?

The recalled bottles are supposed to contain tablets made up of 10 milligrams of hydrocodone and 500 milligrams of acetaminophen. But they are being recalled because the tablets may contain higher amounts of acetaminophen or hydrocodone than indicated on the label.

High doses of acetaminophen may put you at increased risk for liver damage.

Especially at risk are people who:

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• Have liver disease
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Additionally, too-high doses of hydrocodone can cause increased sedation and/or breathing problems, particularly among the elderly, people with severe kidney or liver impairment, and those who are taking other sedating medications or certain antidepressants.

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Children, many ill, would be victims of Russia ban on U.S. adoption

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Family Christmas cards and smiling snapshots of children sent by their adoptive American parents fill Galina Sigayeva's office in Russia's second city St Petersburg.

Many of them were crippled by illness and in desperate need of medical care before her agency helped organize their adoption into U.S. families, she recalls.

Children's rights campaigners say kids like these will suffer most if President Vladimir Putin approves a law barring American adoptions that has been rubber-stamped by Russian lawmakers. The act retaliates against a new U.S. law that will punish Russians accused of human rights violations.

Critics of the bill say Russian orphanages are woefully overcrowded and the fate of vulnerable children should not be used as a bargaining chip in a bilateral feud.

"These children are not even offered to foreigners until they get a certain number of (adoption) refusals from Russians," said Sigayeva, a neatly-styled brunette who heads the New Hope Christian Services Adoption Agency.

"These are children with complicated diagnoses, really complicated. They are very ill children."

She smiled as she flipped through photos of children embraced by their adoptive parents, playing with family pets and enjoying presents and other trappings of holiday cheer.

"What surprises me is that here they all look so healthy, so fantastic, but you should see what they look like when they are taken from here," Sigayeva said.

"Some had to be carried to the border. We had a girl with hepatitis whom we helped from the emergency room."

Both sides in the heated debate surrounding the bill agree Russia's orphanage system is overwhelmed, riddled with corruption and mostly failing to place children in families.

More than 650,000 children are considered orphans in Russia - though some were rejected by their parents or taken from dysfunctional homes. Of that total, 110,000 lived in state institutions in 2011, according to the Ministry of Science and Education.

By contrast, in the United States - which has more than twice Russia's population - about 58,280 children were living in group homes and institutions last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Adoptions by Russian families remain modest, with some 7,400 adoptions in 2011 compared with 3,400 adoptions of Russian children by families abroad.

Russian politicians say it is an embarrassment that the country cannot care for its own, and supporters of the measure argue it will help stimulate reform and domestic adoptions.

"Foreign adoption is a result of the state and society's lack of attention to orphans ... It is, if you will, a result of our indifference," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told officials at a ruling party congress last week.

American families adopt more Russian children - 956 last year - than those of any other country. Of the children adopted by Americans in 2011, 9 percent - or 89 - were disabled, according to official Russian figures.

Opponents of the legislation - who include senior officials such as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov - say politicking should not deprive orphans of this chance at better life.

"Russia is not able to provide for all its orphans," Boris Altshuler, director of the Moscow-based Rights of the Child advocacy group, said. "Although 1,000 is a small fraction - it was a help."

Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets has said the ban would violate international treaties on child rights, and the Kremlin's own human rights council called it unconstitutional.

"AMERICAN ROULETTE"

The ban responds to a U.S. law known as the Magnitsky Act which punishes Russians suspected of being involved in the death in custody of anti-graft lawyer Sergei Magnistky in 2009, and of other human rights violations, by barring them from entering the United States.

In a pointed echo of the Magnitsky Act, Russia's legislation is named the Dima Yakovlev law, after a Russian-born toddler who died of heat stroke after his American adoptive father left him locked in a sweltering car.

His death and that of 19 other Russian-born children in the hands of U.S. citizens in the last decade has helped drive support for the bill and for tougher adoption rules in a deal with the United States in June.

"It's American roulette," said Pavel Astakhov, Russia's Children's Rights Commissioner and a supporter of the ban.

"One handicapped girl from Russia got lucky. She was Jessica Long - a Paralympic champion. Another did not. She was Masha Allen ... who was raped by her pedophile adoptive father."

DISABLED CHILDREN

If Putin signs it into law, the ban will come into force on January 1, most immediately affecting the fate of children whose adoption is in the works.

The placement of 46 children with American families will be cancelled, Astakhov told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday.

Sigayeva said a six-month halt on American adoptions until a new bilateral deal entered force in November showed how it would aggravate problems in Russia's strained child-protection system.

"Hospitals were overwhelmed. There was no room in orphanages or hospitals for children whom their parents had rejected. So what's next then?" said Sigayeva, whose agency has helped place some 200 children in American families since 1992.

Advocates who work with disabled children say a reform proposal drafted by Astakhov ignores their plight. They say it calls for a reduction in the number of institutions caring for children with disabilities without explaining how they will find foster homes and medical care.

"No concrete measures are being suggested. Nothing exists but a lot of children's pain, which will only increase now," said Sergei Koloskov, a campaigner for children with Down's Syndrome.

"They are being left parentless in addition to being ill."

(Additional reporting by Alexander Chizhenok in St. Petersburg; Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Peter Graff)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/children-many-ill-victims-russia-ban-u-adoption-123222651.html

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Rihanna, Chris Brown cuddle courtside in L.A.

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Courtside Christmas! Rihanna and Chris Brown?celebrated Christmas together by attending the Los Angeles Lakers vs. New York Knicks game at the Staples Center Tuesday, Dec. 25.

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They were "laughing and chatting" an eyewitness tells Us Weekly. The twosome, who sat courside together, "looked happy together," the source adds.

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Rihanna, 24, wore a midriff-baring black top to the game and black pants. Brown, 23, also dressed in all black with a leather jacket.

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The exes have been spending more time together recently and tweeting Instagram photos together. But the "We Found Love" singer alluded she was single on Twitter Dec. 18 by tweeting an E-card that read, "Being single sucks. The only thing I get to do anymore is whatever the [expletive] I?want to do."

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Travel costly but worth it for small businesses | TribLIVE

By Rhonda Abrams

Published: Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 12:01?a.m.
Updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Business travel is an often-neglected aspect of small-business life, and most entrepreneurs don?t travel enough.

Nothing beats the power of a face-to-face meeting for closing a deal or maintaining an ongoing client relationship. Business travel can be expensive, especially on a small-business budget, but I?ve got tips to save you money.

1. Travel early in the year. January and February are often a less expensive time to travel with a couple of exceptions.

2. Use alternate airports. Going to Miami, Washington or San Francisco? Check prices to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Baltimore; or San Jose and Oakland, Calif., instead. Lower-cost airlines often run flights from secondary airports, driving prices down on all airlines.

3. Shop prices on the Internet,but also call hotels directly. Often, the lowest rate ? especially at the last minute ? can be obtained by checking with the hotel.

4. Get a credit card that gives you miles, and pay business expenses with that card.

5. Try moderately priced, business-oriented motels. Many hotel chains are specifically aimed at road warriors ? entrepreneurs, salespeople, consultants. These hotels provide a lot of stuff free: Wi-Fi, breakfast, parking, sometimes even free appetizers and drinks in the early evening.

6. Use your own cellphone in the United States. Hotel phones can be costly, even for local calls.

7. Use smartphone apps to connect when you?re outside the United States. You can call or text back home free.

It?s tough to build, maintain and deepen professional relationships from a distance. Travel is the way to build those bridges.

Rhonda Abrams is president of The Planning Shop and publisher of books for entrepreneurs.

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Season's readings ... with a scientific twist

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By Alan Boyle

Giving someone a book about science is like running an experiment. You construct a hypothesis by trying to figure out what interests the prospective recipient, test the hypothesis with the gift book, and then find out whether the book takes an honored place on the reading table ??or gathers dust on the shelf.

To maximize your chances of success, consider the setting for the experiment. Is the book destined for the coffee table, the library table, or the kids' table? If it's the coffee table, make sure that the pictures are big and beautiful. For the library table, you want a well-told story. And the best books for the kids' table are fun as well as factual.

I've gone through my own book pile as well as end-of-the-year reviews to come up with five books for each of those types of tables, plus a few pointers to alternate selections. In each category, I've tried to cover a wide spread of topics ??to maximize the chances that the experiment will be successful. Who knows? You may even want to run an experiment or two on yourself:

For the coffee table:

More Than Human by Lewis Blackwell and Tim Flach: Beautiful portraits of animals ranging from pandas and elephants to bats and snakes. Who knew a pig could be so ... beautiful? Get a preview from Brain Pickings?(Abrams, $65).

Chronicle Books

"The Where, the Why and the How"

The Where, the Why and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science, by Jenny Volvoski, Julia Rothman and Matt Lamothe. Why do we blush? Why do cats purr? The essays and fanciful illustrations will entertain and educate. Check out the YouTube video?(Chronicle Books, $24.95). ?

Firefly Books

Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images, by Terence Dickinson: There's a new Hubble picture book every year, but this year we're lucky to have one authored by the guy who wrote "NightWatch" and "The Universe and Beyond."?Dickinson talks about his space odyssey in a publicity video?(Firefly Books, $49.95). Alternate selections: "Planetfall" and "Space Atlas."

Against All Odds

"The Human Face of Big Data"

The Human Face of Big Data, by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt: The photographers behind the "Day in the Life" art-book series look at how networks and data are transforming our world. Want to go beyond the printed page? Of course you know there's an app for that. Check out the press kit.?(Against All Odds, $50).

Vendome Press

"Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya"

Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya, by Michael D. Coe and Barry Brukoff: Just in time for the Maya non-apocalypse, a Yale anthropologist (Coe) and an award-winning photographer (Brukoff) team up to produce a beautiful book that provides a wide-angle view of the ancient Mesoamerican culture and its art. (Vendome Press, $50).

For the library table:

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen. A science reporter travels the world to track down how diseases make the jump from animal species to humans, causing diseases ranging from AIDS and SARS to Ebola and Lyme disease. In the process, Quammen raises disturbing questions about the Next Big One (W.W. Norton, $28.95). Alternate selection: "Zoobiquity."

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail ? But Some Don't,?by Nate Silver: How many statisticians actually become a punching bag for pundits? Silver, who made the jump from baseball stats to political predictions with his FiveThirtyEight blog, ticked off conservatives by insisting that President Barack Obama had a high probability of re-election. It turns out that Silver was right. Silver's?book guides you through the promise, the peril and the paradox behind prediction (Penguin, $27.95).?

Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order From Chaos, by Peter M. Hoffmann: The world is getting smaller and smaller thanks to nanotechnology. Hoffmann, a physics professor at Wayne State University, delves into the nano-nexus of chemistry, engineering and biology. How does all that molecular machinery give rise to life itself? Brace yourself for some unconventional answers (Basic Books, $27.99).

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, by Ian Tattersall: How did Homo sapiens come to rule the earth? What happened to all those other hominid species, including our Neanderthal cousins? The curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History draws upon recent research to tell the story of our species' rapid rise (Macmillan, $26). Alternate big-name selections: E.O. Wilson's "The Social Conquest of Earth" (published in April) and Jared Diamond's "The World Until Yesterday"?(yet to be released).

Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, by Jim Holt. Is "reality" unreal? Scientists think they just might be able to answer that deep question ? but the even deeper question has to do with "why." Why is there something rather than nothing? Holt checks in with some of the world's deepest thinkers during his personal quest for answers. "Reading this book feels like working out in one of the finest philosophical and intellectual gyms in town," one of Amazon's reviewers writes. Just make sure you keep your mind stretched and limber?(Liveright, $27.95). Alternate selections: "Particle at the End of the Universe," "A Universe From Nothing" and Neil Shubin's yet-to-be-published book, "The Universe Within."

For the kids' table:

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm: Is it possible to do a book about phytoplankton for elementary-school kids? You bet. "Ocean Sunlight" explains how tiny ocean plants support a food chain that leads up to giant whales as well as us humans. It's one of the finalists in the 2013 Science Books and Film Prizes competition, sponsored by Subaru and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Scholastic, ages 4 and up, $18.99).

Destined for Space: Our Story of Exploration, by Don Nardo: This book traces humanity's fascination with the cosmos, starting with the ancient Greeks, going through the glory days of human spaceflight and looking into the future. The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla says it's "lavishly and excellently illustrated" (Capstone paperback, ages 9 to 13, $8.95). Check out Lakdawalla's other space-related reading recommendations for kids.

Animal Grossapedia, by Melissa Stewart: This is one of the "outstanding science trade books" published in 2012 for K-12 students, according to the National Science Teachers Association. "Just gross enough that children will read it, with a good variety of examples and nice focus on vocabulary," the NSTA says (Scholastic, ages 8 to 12, $8.99). Check out the rest of the NSTA's picks. Alternate selection: "Grossopedia," yet to be published.

A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to Butterflies, How Climate Change Affects Wildlife,?by Caroline Arnold and Jamie Hogan: How do you explain climate change to kids? This picture book takes on the tone of a nature journal, explaining how a changing climate alters ecosystems and forces animals to adapt or die. (Charlesbridge, ages 7 to 10, $16.95). Alternate selection for grown-ups: "Global Weirdness."

Big Questions From Little People, and Simple Answers from Great Minds, by Gemma Elwin Harris: Do animals have feelings? Why can't I tickle myself? Harris has gathered up 100 questions from grade-school kids ??and enlisted luminaries such as author Mary Roach, biologist Richard Dawkins, chef Gordon Ramsay and linguist Noam Chomsky to serve up the answers. To tell the truth, this book is directed as much at big people as it is at little people (Harper Collins, age 9-ish and up, $24.99).

What's on your reading table? What would you like to get (or give) this holiday season? Share your faves in a comment below, or on the Cosmic Log Facebook page. And for still more book suggestions, check out the Cosmic Log backlist:

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Police kill gunman in Alabama hospital

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Police shot and killed a gunman at an Alabama hospital early on Saturday after he wounded an officer and two hospital employees, authorities said.

When police arrived at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham and approached the suspect, he opened fire, said Sergeant Johnny Williams, spokesman for the Birmingham Police Department.

One officer returned fire and killed the suspect, he said. None of the wounded had life-threatening injuries, and they were transported to another hospital for treatment, according to Williams.

The incident began around 4 a.m. when a hospital employee on the fifth floor spotted a man with a gun and called police, Williams said.

Police have not yet confirmed the man's identity, he added.

(Writing by Verna Gates; Editing by Jane Sutton and Xavier Briand)

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Karl Ludvigsen, longtime automotive author, researcher, and contributor to Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, obviously knows a thing or two about writing a good book, whatever the topic may be. That fact was hammered home earlier this week when he won the Dean Batchelor Award, the highest honor in automotive journalism, for his book Porsche: Origin of the Species.

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Nominated in the Motor Press Guild?s Best Book category for 2012, Ludvigsen?s Porsche book competed with In the Red by Jade Gurss and The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odessey ? Revisited By Sylvia Wilkinson to win its category and then with the winner of the Best Audio/Visual category (Micah Muzio and Michael Delano?s KBB Races a Mazda Miata for Kelly Blue Book) and the winner of the Best Article category (The World?s Fastest Hot Rod By Greg Sharp, which appeared in The Rodder?s Journal, Spring 2012 issue) to take the Dean Batchelor Award, presented Tuesday night at the Motor Press Guild banquet in Los Angeles. Also honored that night was Thomas L. Bryant, editor emeritus of Road & Track, who received the guild?s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Year's Best Meteor Shower Tonight

"Button up your overcoat...
Get to bed by three...."

With apologies to Helen Kane, who made those song lyrics famous in 1929, you may want to stay up late tonight or get up early Friday morning, even as winter approaches. The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight -- usually one of the best of the year, and early indications are that it's already putting on a good show.

Earth is passing through the orbit of an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, and astronomers think we're seeing its debris -- shooting stars, more than 50 per hour, many of them no larger than grains of sand, burning up as they plow into the atmosphere.

Scientists think the Geminids could have some extra punch this year. There is a comet called 46P/Wirtanen, discovered in 1948, and we could pass through the trail of debris from its orbit tonight as well. It would be the first time on record -- two meteor showers at once.

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"Dust from this comet hitting Earth's atmosphere could produce as many as 30 meteors per hour," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office on the NASA Science News page.

A little quick arithmetic -- 50 plus 30 per hour -- means it could be a lively night in the sky.

Astronomers say it's worth watching after 9 or 10 p.m. local time, and the seeing gets better after midnight, since the morning side of the Earth is the one that faces forward as we travel around the sun. Conveniently, there's a new moon -- nothing bright in the night sky to blind you to the sometimes-faint shooting stars.

The Geminids, which happen this time of year like clockwork, are an oddity. Most major meteor showers -- the Perseids in August, the Leonids in November -- have occurred for thousands of years, caused as Earth passes through clouds of debris left by passing comets.

But the Geminids only appeared in the 1860s. Not until 1983 did astronomers find 3200 Phaethon, in a lopsided orbit that crosses our own and also brings it close to the sun -- close enough, they theorize, that the sun's heat cracks it and kicks up dust, which, over time, has spread out along the asteroid's path.

How to Watch

The worst thing for sky watchers about the Geminids is that the air is often cold and crisp -- but the best thing for sky watchers about the Geminids is that the air is often cold and crisp. You may have to bundle up, but if the sky is clear, it's very clear.

Be alert; most meteors streak by in a second or less, sometimes in clusters. They could appear anywhere in the sky, though they'll appear to come from the constellation Gemini the twins. Gemini is just north and to the left of the familiar stars of Orion, and will be highest in the sky around 2 a.m.

(If you want to stay indoors, NASA said it will stream video from an astronomy camera in Huntsville, Ala. from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. EST. More information HERE.)

The best way to see meteors is to find a nice, dark place with no street lights and as few trees as possible, and look up. You may be happiest in a lawn chair or a sleeping bag; something hot to drink may be nice, too.

No other equipment is needed. A telescope or binoculars will just narrow your view. While the shower actually peaks tonight, meteors are often spotted several nights before and after. Friday night may be almost as good as Thursday.

So if the weather is clear and you don't have something urgent in the morning, you may want to, er, button up your overcoat and stay up. Past three if you like.

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There's only one episode left before the winner of the twenty-fifth season of "Survivor" is crowned. "Survivor: Philippines" has proven to be one of the best in the run of the entire series, and that was largely in part to the great personalities cast. One of the most polarizing was Abi-Maria, who found her back against the wall again this week.

This time, though, she failed to win individual immunity, meaning she he had to try and outwit the other players. Nobody was buying her fake idol story, so she appealed to the strategic side. In this, she made a compelling argument. Everyone disliked her so much, she'd never win the million dollars. So take her to the end to improve your chances.

The gambit almost worked on Skupin and Lisa, but they stayed true to their alliance with Denise and Malcolm. The original underdog pair -- Malcolm and Denise -- now find themselves favorites to win this whole thing. Lisa may have an outside chance, if she can get there.

Find out how it all plays out with the usual Sunday finale for "Survivor: Philippines," starting at 8:30 p.m. EST on CBS, or after the football game ends.

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Hopefully most of you have already read the news, but in case you haven?t, I am very excited to be a full-time member of the SEOmoz staff! The announcement came out as I was en route from Blueglass X in Tampa to BIA Kelsey?s ILM West show in Los Angeles. In fact, and I?m still trying to catch up on thanking everyone in my Twitter stream and on the original blog post.

Both conferences were excellent, but if you?ve never attended a BIA Kelsey show, it?s a completely different animal from conferences and seminars in the search industry. The conference contains very few ?actionable tips that you can implement on Monday morning,? but that?s not the reason you attend. BIA Kelsey recruits executives from the major digital marketing technology and service providers to small businesses for extended 1:1 or 1:2 discussions with their analysts. By and large, these executives are surprisingly open about challenges they face, and although some sessions turn into sales pitches, the best ones give you real insight into the online marketing pain points and opportunities for small businesses across the country.

So, keeping that background in mind, I want to focus my first SEOmoz post on my #1 and #1a takeaways from the BIA Kelsey show. (There will be plenty of posts from me coming up over the next several months, and Rand?s excellent Whiteboard Friday last week will hopefully satiate you guys on local for the time being.)

Small businesses vs. Search marketing?

I have lived, breathed, eaten, slept, celebrated, and advocated small business internet marketing for the last eight years. But not even I realized until recently:

1) How large the disconnect between the search marketing industry and the small business community is.

1a) The size of the market opportunity for the consultants and agencies who can bridge this disconnect.

One of BIA Kelsey?s forecasts really crystallized this disconnect for me: their annual survey gauging the marketing mindset of the average small business owner. This survey breaks respondents into two categories: ?core SMBs? and ?plus spenders.? What is incredibly revealing for most people in our industry is the average annual marketing spend of these two groups: $3,000 and $82,600.

Note: these numbers are TOTAL marketing spend. Annually, not monthly. Even the ?plus spenders? would have a hard time finding anyone on this list willing to take them on for less than a $5,000/month budget, assuming they were looking for an end-to-end, search-and-social-media monthly arrangement. The level to which this segment is being served by the broader search industry is substantial, but economics dictate that more established agencies tend to go after bigger fish.

On the other side of the spectrum, BIA Kelsey is one of the few companies out there who even considers the plight of the $250/month small business. And if you think $250 sounds like a small monthly budget, wait ?til you hear that these businesses actually spend closer to $100/month on their website and web presence (see slide 8)! This is the reality of operating a small business, though. Advertising costs for small businesses do not come from a corporate marketing budget; they come from family vacation budgets or college savings funds.

Why do I think the market opportunity is so large, then, for agencies who can serve these average businesses? Surely there is no margin in a stable of $250/month clients?

#1 You have virtually no competition for these clients

Jim Moroney of the Dallas Morning News candidly admitted that his newspaper had effectively ?priced out? most small business advertisers years ago. His newspaper has a 600,000 subscriber distribution, and for the mom-and-pop dry cleaner or local restaurant serving one small neighborhood in Dallas-Fort Worth, those types of ads do not pencil out economically.

The analogy holds true today even in the digital era. Most small businesses in this $250/month segment are priced out of online advertising. Most of the major Internet yellow pages companies are thinking either of Adwords, display ads (whether they be CPM or CPC), or a combination of the two. There were very few presentations at the show focused on acquiring new customers via inbound marketing. Yet in many categories, $250 will only buy a handful of clicks per month, especially once you consider the Cost-of-Goods-Sold that third-party vendors need to build into their pricing.

The bottom line is that inbound marketing, i.e. ?free? traffic, is the only sustainable marketing technique for this large segment of small businesses. No other option has enough margin to sustain a business on the sales side, so traditional advertising companies are simply not targeting this enormous potential customer base. The CEO of YP.com roughly admitted as much ? that his company was simply too big and too slow-moving to be able to compete effectively with a 2-3 person agency ? and I don?t think he?s alone in this admission.

#2 By default, all of your leads for this business segment are going to be high-quality, inbound leads

At $250/month, only companies at the very largest scale (basically, Google, Facebook, and Apple) can sustain a business with a sales force. There is just not enough margin to support feet-on-the-street at this price point. So, at least among the BIA Kelsey audience, everyone is targeting the ?plus spenders.? And even if those companies are able to bring on a business at this price point, they usually end up underserving them. Almost every company that has tried serving this segment at scale bemoans the tremendous ?churn? rate when these clients cancel their contracts as a result of poor service.

No one is targeting these businesses from a sales perspective, so they?re literally forced to do their own research. Business owners making the effort to seek you out are going to be more engaged in the marketing process, more responsive, and more likely to implement changes or give you buy-in on your recommended tactics.

#3 The upside for these businesses could be huge

Chances are, you are starting from scratch with this segment. If they have a website, it?s probably completely un-optimized, and a few Title Tag and H1 changes will dramatically increase the amount of business they get from the Internet. Maybe only a few have claimed local search listings, or maybe the business only has one inbound link from a local college or community organization.

Unlike more competitive categories in organic search (like e-commerce or travel), success can still be achieved relatively quickly in most local categories. You?re going to see a ?wow? factor associated with even moderately effective white-hat tactics. And while small business owners have a reputation for ?churn? in this industry, as I mentioned above, most of them are incredibly loyal to companies who actually provide value with their services.

So, what can you do to serve business owners at this lower end of the market?

Here are just a few basic tasks that rookie or junior search professionals can perform without requiring any time investment by a senior employee:

• 
  Improve Title Tags and H1 tags
• 
  Submit citations (whether in-house or outsourced)
• 
  Set up Google Alerts
• 
  Set up a WordPress blog
• 
  Provide editorial advice for weekly blog post topics and Facebook posts
• 
  Control blog commenting on the business owner?s behalf
• 
  Draft review solicitation emails on the business owner?s behalf
• 
  Track the success of review solicitation campaigns via a spreadsheet
• 
  Reach out to business and community organizations for locally-relevant links
• 
  Create hyper-targeted Facebook ad campaigns under $50/month in total spend*
  *In my opinion, Adwords has effectively killed its own small business market opportunity with the increasing number of ?not enough search volume? long-tail keywords and ever-higher minimum bid levels.

Let?s assume your agency wants 100% markup on your employees? or contractors? time. Let?s also say that a decent hourly rate for a recent liberal arts college graduate is about $17/hour (this works out to a $36,000/year annual salary). This means your agency can afford roughly seven hours per month of marketing on behalf of an average small business owner. Let?s be even more conservative and say that a more senior employee at $100/hour will need to review each account for 30 minutes per month. This still leaves five hours per month, per business for the college grad. Think of the number of tasks in the list above that could be completed in that amount of time!

Helping business owners at the lower end of the marketing spectrum has been a cause for me since I started in the search industry. Beyond the near-moral imperative that I?ve felt personally, I also see incredible economic potential from serving these long-tail customers.

OK, that?s enough out of me for today. I?d love to hear from you guys: how many of you serve clients anywhere near this $250/month price point? What kinds of services do you provide them? What has your experience been like? How many have served them in the past but moved onto clients with bigger budgets? Looking forward to the discussion with you in the comments.

Source: http://www.online-seo-company.com/seo-moz/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-long-tail-clients-small-business-owners-4/

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