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Submitted by David on Sat, 2012-10-13 14:28
Aircraft Carriers in Space
"Naval analyst Chris Weuve talks to Foreign Policy about what Battlestar Galactica gets right about space warfare."
Estimated 2.8 million Canadians live abroad
"the emigration rate for the naturalized portion of the Canadian population from 1996 to 2006 was 4.5 per cent. For the Canadian-born population, the exit rate was estimated at 1.33 per cent, which translates into 500,000 Canadian-born leavers over the 10-year period."
Backyards are highly overrated
"Evidence shows that for all we lust after outdoor sanctuaries, such retreats have little to do with the lives we actually live. Neither adults nor children spend much leisure time outdoors, and in making the trade-offs to have private outdoor space, we could be making ourselves less happy overall."
Mom sues police over arrest: Says she was wrongly accused of child endangerment
"Tammy Cooper said she was wrongly accused of endangering her children and was even forced to spend the night in jail, all because she let her kids play outside. She said her children, ages 9 and 6, were riding their motorized scooters in the cul-de-sac where they live while she watched from a lawn chair in her front yard just a few feet away. "I was out there the entire time," Cooper said. "I never left that lawn chair the entire time." Cooper said a little while later, a La Porte police car pulled up in front of her home. "I went out there to see what he was here for and he said, 'Ma'am, we're here for you.' I said, 'Oh really? Why?' He proceeded to tell me he had received a call from one of my neighbors that my kids were riding their scooters unsupervised. Cooper said she was handcuffed, put in the back of a police car and forced to spend the night in jail."

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Karen w (not verified)

Sun, 2012-10-14 14:58

Hah i read the article about back yards while sitting in ours looking at a screen. I wonder if this counts as outdoor time or screen time?

To be fair, I came outside without the phone. Jonathan then brought it out to me.