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An innovative road map to help parents bring creative play, quality relationships, and a sense of confidence and personal safety back into their kids’ lives

One only need turn on the TV, stroll the aisles of any toy store, or visit any American elementary school to witness the formidable social trends that, over the past few decades, have begun to erode the quality of kids’ lives—from media violence and rampant consumerism, to overly structured school days and overly wired (yet emotionally disconnected) relationships. What parent doesn’t think back longingly to a time when carefree play with other kids and a simpler life was the norm? Childhood should be a precious time of oasis from the realities of the adult world, yet in today’s fast-paced, achievement-obsessed, ever-more-dangerous society, this is increasingly not the case.

Based on renowned early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s thirty years of researching and writing about young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, the lives of kids today and restore childhood to the very best of what it can and should be.

There are three attributes critical to all children’s healthy development, Carlsson-Paige explains: time and space for creative play, a feeling of security in today’s often frightening world, and strong, meaningful relationships with both adults and other children—attributes that we, as a society, are failing to protect and nurture. Grounded in child development theory and research, Taking Back Childhood reveals practical, hands-on steps parents can take to create a safe, open, and imaginative environment in which kids can relish childhood and flourish as human beings..
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This is a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIV WARMINSTER PA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A955013. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Plyophen 23-900 and 23-057, two phenolic adhesives widely used in self-lubricating bearing applications, are being replaced with Plyophen 23-900X and 23-057X. The proposed alternatives are supposedly no different from the original adhesives since the change was made in the choice of catalyst used and then later removed during processing. A program was developed in which the basic material characteristics such as the chemical, mechanical, physical and thermal properties of the original adhesives are evaluated and compared with those of the proposed alternatives. The study includes floating roller peel test, Fourier transform infrared analysis, single lap shear test, thermomechanical analysis and viscosity measurements. Although this is an interim report, results so far indicate that there are definite differences between the original adhesives and the proposed alternatives..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A378873. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Detecting short transients is a signal processing application that has a wide range of military uses. To be specific in Undersea Warfare, sensitive signal detection schemes can increase the effective range of active and passive sonar operations. Current research is being done to improve the capability of detecting short signals buried within background noise, particularly in Littoral waters. Starting with a colored noise model, this thesis will introduce two denoising methods based on multiresolution analysis and compare the results to current transient detection techniques. The goal of this thesis is not necessarily to replace current detection schemes, but rather to enhance them and thereby making the procedure more robust..
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This is a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB BROOKS AFB TX HUMAN EFFECTIVENESS DIRECTORATE report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A449173. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: We describe calculations of a plane-wave pulse train of finite duration in a linear lossy dispersive dielectric half-space by means of Fourier integral transforms. The polarization response of Debye and Lorentz media to a finite number of sinewave pulses and the response of a Lorentz medium to a single Gaussian modulated sinewave pulse are given. These solutions are formulated for the case of normal incidence to the planar boundary of a dielectric half-space. Our results show that the Fourier transform accurately reproduces precursor phenomena previously observed for infinitely periodic pulse trains using the Fourier series method extending the analysis to a periodic waveforms. These results can be computed to arbitrary accuracy because the Fourier integral representation of the propagated pulse is exact, i.e. no analytical or physical approximations are used to arrive at the time-domain solution. We believe that this numerical tool will be useful in developing physical intuition about the dynamics of pulse propagation in bio-tissue which is now made possible by the availability of high-speed computer hardware..
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