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How to survive a zombie apocalypse

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Odds are that the undead won't attack anytime soon, but it never hurts to be prepared. Msnbc.com's Rosa Golijan takes a look at the gear you'll need to fend off zombie hordes.

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi to address British Parliament

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for a meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for a meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with British Foreign Secretary William Hague as she arrives for a meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, looks up as she arrives in a procession at an award ceremony at Oxford University, Oxford, England Wednesday, June 20, 2012. It was a long wait, but Aung San Suu Kyi has finally received her honorary degree from Oxford University. The leader of Myanmar?s opposition is being honored Wednesday at the university?s Encaenia ceremony, where it presents honorary degrees to distinguished people. Suu Kyi, who is making her first visits outside of her native country in 24 years, was awarded the honorary doctorate in civil law in 1993 but was unable to collect it as she was under house arrest in Myanmar. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, poses for the photographers following an award ceremony at the Oxford University, Oxford, England, on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. It was a long wait, but Aung San Suu Kyi has finally received her honorary degree from Oxford University. In her speech, Suu Kyi praised the role Oxford played in helping her see humankind at its best during her long years under house arrest in Myanmar. "The most important thing that I learned was respect for all of civilization," she said, wearing a traditional red gown. "In Oxford I learned to respect all that is best in human civilization. That helped me cope with something that was not quite the best." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

LONDON (AP) ? Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address lawmakers from both houses of the British Parliament Thursday, becoming one of the few non-heads of state to be given the honor.

Suu Kyi follows dignitaries including South African President Nelson Mandela, Pope Benedict XVI and U.S. President Barack Obama in giving a speech in Parliament's medieval Westminster Hall.

She also met with Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, and Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday.

At a joint press conference at Number 10 Downing Street, Cameron said he had invited Myanmar President Thein Stein to visit Britain later this year. The invitation is seen as recognition of serious reform efforts in Myanmar. Cameron visited Myanmar in April.

The prime minister said Britain wants to work with the governing regime in Myanmar and said the regime also wants reform.

"I do believe the president is sincere in wanting reform," he said.

Suu Kyi expressed support for the invitation. "We don't want to be shackled by the past," she said.

Cameron also said the British government plans to open an office in Myanmar and to encourage business investment there.

Suu Kyi, who spent many years under house arrest in Myanmar, is making her first overseas trip in 24 years. She has visited Switzerland, Norway and Ireland and is spending a week in Britain, where she studied and lived for many years.

Associated Press

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Shoreline Science: Exploring the Erosive Energy of Waves

SHORE THING: Build a berm and make waves in a sandbox for science. Surf's up! Image: George Retseck

Key concepts
Oceans
Beaches
Geology
Erosion

Introduction
A day at the beach is a wonderful way to spend time with your family and friends. You can swim, play games and build sand castles. But have you ever wondered how the beach you are standing on came to be? How, for example, did all of that sand get there? Beaches are formed and continually changed by the ocean's waves moving rock particles onshore, offshore and along the shore. In this activity, you can investigate how beach formations are made by some parts of a beach that can resist erosion from the waves more than other parts.

Background
A beach is a geologic formation made up of loose rock particles such as sand, gravel and shell fragments deposited along the shoreline of a body of water. A beach has a few key features. The berm is the part that is mostly above water; this is the active shoreline. The top of the berm is known as the crest, and the part that slopes toward the water is called the face. At the bottom of the face there may be a trough and, further seaward, there may be sandbars parallel to the beach.

The erosion of rock formations in the water, coral reefs and headlands create rock particles that the waves move onshore, offshore and along the shore, creating the beach. Continual erosion of the shoreline by waves also changes the beach over time. One change that erosion can cause is the appearance of a headland. This is land that juts out from the coastline and into the water and affects how the surrounding shoreline is eroded.

Materials
? ?? Paint-roller pan
? ?? Measuring cup
? ?? Sand
? ?? Water
? ?? Timer
? ?? Digital camera
? ?? Plastic 500-milliliter water bottle (empty)
? ?? Adult volunteer to help take pictures
? ?? Small gravel, such as aquarium gravel

Preparation
? ?? Cover the bottom of the paint-roller pan with five cups of sand. Build up a beach with most, but not all, of the sand at the shallow end of the pan.
? ?? Slowly pour six cups of water into the deep end of the pan. Let the water and sand settle for five minutes. How has the beach changed during this time?

Procedure
? ?? Take a picture of your beach so that you have a record of how it looked in its original state. Is the shoreline where the beach and water meet?
? ?? Lay a plastic bottle horizontally so it is floating in the water in the deep end of the pan.
? ?? For two minutes bob the water bottle up and down with your fingertips to create waves. If the waves get so big that water splashes out of the pan, make them smaller. How does the water swirl? How does the shoreline change after one minute? What about after two minutes?
? ?? After two minutes of bobbing the bottle, take a picture of the beach. How does it look compared with the first picture?
? ?? Empty, clean and dry the paint-roller pan. Prepare a "beach" again, as you did for the preparation. When the beach is complete, make a "headland" by creating a mound out of two cups of small gravel in the middle of the shoreline. The headland should be partly in the water and partly on the beach. Take a picture of the beach with the headland.
? ?? Again, lay the plastic bottle horizontally so it is floating in the water. For two minutes, bob the water bottle up and down with your fingertips. Again, if the waves are so big that water splashes out, make them smaller. How does the water swirl? How does the shoreline change after one minute? What about after two minutes?
? ?? After two minutes, take a picture of the beach. How does it look compared with the previous picture?
? ?? How does the headland affect where the water goes? How does it affect how much the shoreline erodes?
? ?? Extra: Repeat this activity at least two more times with a ruler taped to the side of the pan. Exactly how much shoreline erosion occurs with and without a headland?
? ?? Extra: Try increasing or decreasing the speed of bobbing the bottle. Does this affect how the beach changes over time?
? ?? Extra: Pour a large volume of water all at once into the deep end of the pan to simulate a storm surge or a tsunami. What happens to the beach?

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Sandusky case in jury's hands

The former Penn State assistant coach's child molestation trial has taken nine days; now, the jury will decide if he is guilty of abusing young boys.

By Genaro C. Armas and Mark Scolforo,?The Associated Press / June 21, 2012

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on June 19. Sandusky is charged with 51 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15 years.

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Jerry Sandusky was either a "predatory pedophile" who lured young boys to Penn State with gifts and access to big-time football, or a victim of now-grown men who lied to get a payout, attorneys argued Thursday as the former coach's child sex abuse case went to a jury.

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As jurors deliberated into the evening, one of Sandusky's adopted sons came forward for the first time to say that his father had abused him. Matt Sandusky, 33, was prepared to testify for prosecutors at the trial, his attorneys said in a statement. The statement didn't specify what the alleged abuse was.

The elder Sandusky, who faces life in prison if convicted of 48 counts of abuse of 10 boys over 15 years, was smiling and chuckling to himself as prosecutors wrapped up closing arguments. His wife, Dottie, leaned forward in her seat with a concerned look, resting her chin in her hands.

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The former assistant football coach was arrested last November in a scandal that led to the firing of beloved head coach Joe Paterno, who died of cancer in January, and the departure of the university's president.

The jury deliberated for more than eight hours Thursday before stopping at about 9:30 p.m.

Earlier in the evening, the panel asked the judge if they could rehear testimony from two witnesses: Mike McQueary, a onetime graduate assistant who reported seeing Sandusky assault a boy in a campus shower, and Dr. Jonathan Dranov, who testified that McQueary gave him a different account of what he saw.

They'll have a chance to listen again to that testimony, and restart deliberations, Friday.

Prosecutors said Sandusky was "a serial, predatory pedophile" who used gifts and the pageantry of Penn State's vaunted football program to attract and abuse vulnerable boys who came from troubled homes.

"What you should do is come out and say to the defendant that he molested and abused and give them back their souls," Senior Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan III told jurors. "I give them to you. Acknowledge and give them justice."

During his closing argument, McGettigan put up smiling pictures of eight accusers when they were children; all testified at trial that Sandusky molested them.

Standing behind Sandusky, McGettigan implored the jury to convict him

"He molested and abused and hurt these children horribly," McGettigan said. "He knows he did it, and you know he did it. Find him guilty of everything."

Defense attorney Joseph Amendola argued that the 68-year-old Sandusky was targeted by investigators who coached accusers into making false claims about a generous man whose charity gave them much-needed love.

"They went after him, and I submit to you they were going to get him hell or high water, even if they had to coach witnesses," Amendola said in a sometimes angry closing argument.

The closing arguments came after seven days of testimony, some of it graphically describing alleged abuse suffered at the hands of Sandusky, including touching in showers, fondling and in some cases forced oral or anal sex. One alleged victim ? a foster child at the time ? testified that Sandusky threatened him, telling him he would never see his family again if he disclosed the assaults.

Prosecutors said Sandusky met his victims through The Second Mile, a charity he founded for at-risk youth.

Eight young men testified that they were abused by Sandusky, and jurors also heard about two other alleged victims through other witnesses, including another former coach.

Sandusky has repeatedly denied the allegations, but he didn't testify during the trial.

But Amendola said the accusers' stories didn't make sense, since they also included frequent visits to Sandusky's home, trips to football games and other activities.

"Folks, you have to use your common sense," Amendola said. "Jerry Sandusky took these kids everywhere. Is that what a pedophile does? ... Does he parade these kids around?"

McGettigan countered with Sandusky's own words in a November interview with NBC's Bob Costas, in which he struggled to give direct answers to questions.

Asked if he was sexually attracted to boys, Sandusky said: "Sexually attracted, you know, I, I enjoy young people. I, I love to be around them. ... No, I'm not sexually attracted to young boys."

"I would think that the automatic response, if someone asks you if you're a criminal, a pedophile, a child molester, or anything along those lines, would be: 'You're crazy. No. Are you nuts?'" McGettigan said.

The jury, which includes nine people with ties to Penn State, had begun deliberating when Matt Sandusky's attorneys issued a statement alleging that Sandusky abused one of his five adopted sons.

"During the trial, Matt Sandusky contacted us and requested our advice and assistance in arranging a meeting with prosecutors to disclose for the first time in this case that he is a victim of Jerry Sandusky's abuse," Andrew Shubin and Justine Andronici said in the statement. "At Matt's request, we immediately arranged a meeting between him and the prosecutors and investigators.

"This has been an extremely painful experience for Matt and he has asked us to convey his request that the media respect his privacy. There will be no further comment."

Karl Rominger, one of Jerry Sandusky's lawyers, declined comment. Matt Sandusky's lawyers and prosecutors didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Matt Sandusky went to live with Sandusky and his wife as a foster child and was adopted by them as an adult.

Shortly after Jerry Sandusky's arrest, Matt Sandusky's ex-wife went to court to keep her former father-in-law away from their three young children. Jill Jones successfully obtained a restraining order forbidding the children from sleeping over at their grandparents' home.

Around the same time, details emerged that Matt Sandusky had attempted suicide just four months after first going to live with the couple in 1995. He had come into the home through The Second Mile.

During testimony last week, an accuser known as Victim 4 said Matt Sandusky was living at the Sandusky home at the time he stayed there overnight and testified that Jerry Sandusky came into the shower with the two boys and "started pumping his hand full of soap." Matt Sandusky shut off the shower and left, appearing nervous, the witness said.

Earlier Thursday, the judge in the case threw out three of the 51 child sex abuse charges against Sandusky.

Cleland found that one count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and one count of aggravated indecent assault involving the accuser known as Victim 4 weren't supported by the evidence. Another charge of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse involving another boy was dismissed because Cleland said it duplicated another count.

Meanwhile, a man with a civil lawsuit pending against Jerry Sandusky spoke out Thursday.

Travis Weaver is named as John Doe in the lawsuit filed in Philadelphia in November, but his lawyer, Jeff Anderson, said Thursday he was ready to make his name public.

In an interview with NBC's "Rock Center with Brian Williams" airing Thursday night, the 30-year-old Weaver said Sandusky abused him more than 100 times over four years starting in 1992, when he was 10

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Why your diet tanks at night

It's the same old story: You start out your day with the best of eating intentions but, by lunchtime, that candy bar's starting to sound really good. And dinner? Well, let's just say the pizza delivery guy asked you to come to his wedding.

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