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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
A woman's work is never done?
[unable to retrieve full-text content]One of the greatest social changes across Europe in recent decades has been the increase of women in the labor market. However, changes in women?s work patterns have not always been matched by changes in the division of household tasks between the sexes, reveals a new study.
Meyer disciplines 4 Buckeyes, including Hyde, Roby
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has disciplined four players for legal problems, including suspending leading-scorer Carlos Hyde from all team activities in the wake of an alleged assault against a female over the weekend in Columbus.
In addition, star cornerback Bradley Roby, who was arrested in Indiana for an altercation with a security guard at a bar this past weekend, will not represent the Buckeyes at this week's Big Ten media days. He was one of the players initially selected to speak to reporters at the annual event.
Freshmen recruits Marcus Baugh, a tight end, and defensive lineman Tim Gardner were also disciplined on Monday.
"I have a clear set of core values in place that members of this football program are constantly reminded of and are expected to honor," Meyer said in a statement issued by Ohio State late on Monday afternoon. "There are also expectations with regard to behavior. I expect our players to conduct themselves responsibly and appropriately and they will be held accountable for their actions."
There were published reports earlier in the day that Hyde had been kicked off the team for being listed as a person of interest in the alleged assault of a woman at a downtown Columbus bar. The Columbus Dispatch cited sources saying Hyde was dismissed from the team over the incident early Saturday.
Hyde, a 6-foot, 242-pound senior from Naples, Fla., rushed for 970 yards on 185 carries last season, second best on the team behind quarterback Braxton Miller, and was the unbeaten Buckeyes' leading scorer with 17 touchdowns and 102 points.
He came within just 30 yards of becoming the first running back to reach 1,000 yards in a season in Meyer's 12 years as a head coach at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and his lone year at Ohio State.
Roby, one of the team's top returning defensive players, was involved in a separate incident.
Court records in Monroe County, Ind., indicate Roby was arrested early Sunday morning in Bloomington, Ind., and is facing preliminary charges of misdemeanor battery resulting in bodily injury. He posted bond.
Roby, a 5-11, 192-pound redshirt junior from Suwanee, Ga., was Ohio State's third-leading tackler last year. He had two interceptions, one for a touchdown, to go with two tackles for minus yardage, one sack, one fumble recovery and one blocked kick.
He had considered jumping into the NFL draft after Ohio State's 12-0 season but decided to return to the team.
Pending further investigations of Roby's actions, he could receive more punishment from Meyer.
The Bloomington police report charged that Roby tried to start a fight with one patron of the bar and was forced out of the bar. Hoping to get back inside with his friends, he attempted to re-enter the bar and was told he could not. The report states, "Mr. Roby then struck one of the security guards in the chest, causing a complaint of pain. He was then wrestled to the ground and detained until police arrived at the scene."
The two freshmen were considered promising prospects.
Baugh, like Hyde, was removed from all team activities and will also sit out the first game of the season, Aug. 31 vs. Buffalo, for his arrest last weekend for underage possession of alcohol and possessing a fake identification. The Riverside, Calif., native's actions will also result in the loss of his financial aid this summer.
Gardner, from Indianapolis, was sent home and will not be a part of the 2013 team after he was charged Saturday night by Columbus police with obstruction of official business.
It was not immediately known if he was linked to Hyde's arrest or that was yet another incident.
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith praised Meyer's actions.
"Swift, effective and fair discipline is the standard for our entire athletics program," Smith said in the statement. "I applaud Coach Meyer for his immediate actions."
Meyer has been forced to defend his judgment after former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who played for Meyer at Florida, was arrested and charged with murder.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meyer-disciplines-4-buckeyes-including-hyde-roby-204240122.html
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Days before championship fight, Demetrious Johnson becomes ?Mighty Dad?
UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson will fight John Moraga on Saturday, but he had a bigger task to take care of over the weekend. Johnson's wife gave birth to their first child, a baby boy. "Mighty Mouse" wasted no time in slipping a UFC glove on his newborn son after he was born. Johnson shared the picture, but then had to get back to work with his fight just days away.
Last hard day of sparring ready to go to work next Saturday @ufc on fox 8 #teammighty #teamAMC
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Vaccinating boys plays key role in HPV prevention
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Improving vaccination rates against the human papillomavirus (HPV) in boys is key to protecting both men and women, says new research. HPV has been linked to anal, penile and certain types of throat cancers in men. Since the virus is also responsible for various cancers in women, vaccinating boys aged 11 to 21 will play a crucial role in reducing cancer rates across the sexes.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
The Jack Blood Abiotic Oil Challenge ? Accepted!
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As my good friend Liam well knows, I do not camp at ANY site, Dogma, or pup tent. What happened was ? we had a pretty basic discussion about energy on my show Friday July 14th 2013. I thought we barely scratched the surface regarding ?Aboitic Oil? (Oil that doesn?t come from fossils) I sent him THIS article (there?s better research BTW) to keep him engaged. Below is his response. PS: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND LIAM?S LATEST BOOK ?OFFICIAL STORIES? (get it from him at his site!)
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July 13, 2013
Does Oil Come From Old Plankton or Old Hat?
by Liam Scheff
My radio friend and admired pot-stirrer extraordinaire ? Jack Blood of Deadline Live ? has challenged me to consider ?abiotic oil? as a real and useful source of petrol for our toasters (yes, we use it for grain, forging metal, machining factory parts, shipping them to your house, paying Amazon.com, and running electrical power to brown your Monsanto-ized white bread.)
Here?s a quote from the article he posted on my forehead:
?A little research indicates that more than a few thinkers disagree with the scientific consensus on how oil is formed. Consensus scientists will of course reject these ?quacks? as ?snake oil salesmen.? (Get it?)?The short version: It is fallacious to appeal to authority or the majority opinion. It doesn?t matter who says or thinks something. It could be right or it could be wrong. Consensus science automatically jumps down your throat if you question ?climate change? or ?macro-evolution.? And this is one of the main blind spots of the fossil fuel bandwagoners. All alternative theories to oil formation are rejected by the majority opinion in order to protect some of modern man?s more sacred cows. Not for scientific reasons, of course. But because of ideological prejudices.? LINK
?Ah, damned consensus science!? goes the hew and cry. But, who?s arguing for consensus? Have they read my book?? (Well.. read it, already!)
This is not a technical argument ? and the paper does not point to any real increase of oil supplies anywhere in the world. It?s not a technical exploration of oil drilling. It?s a pleasant philosophical argument about how science is skewed toward consensus. So, it has no real-world value as an exploration of oil movement, amounts or sources. Which I suspect Jack already knows!
There is a link to an article in the piece stating that ?wells all over are refilling,? with little in the way of anything technical. It?s called, ?Oil Fields Are Refilling?Naturally ? Sometimes Rapidly,? with the under-title, ?There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth.? Which is clever, but meaningless, as ?seep? isn?t defined ? but is here meant to indicate that we?re making new oil daily, so don?t worry, keep driving, and laugh at the idiot geologists who got it all wrong.
But the article concludes with the following, which explains that they?re guessing.
?It is suspected that the process of upward migration of petroleum is driven by natural gas that is being continually produced both by deeply buried bacteria and from oil being broken down in the deeper, hotter layers of sediment. The pressures and heat at great depth are thought to be increasing because the ground is sinking ? subsiding ? as a result of new sediments piling up on top?Analysis of the oil being driven into the reservoirs suggests they were created during the so-called Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods (100 million to 150 million years ago), even before the existing basin itself was formed. This means the source rock is buried and remains invisible to seismic imaging beneath layers of salt.? LINK.
The article states that there are seeps in deep ocean basins. It then speculates that they are very, very old, but that instead of being made out of old algae, they are somehow maid by? bacteria. Also very long ago. Or? something. Not much different than the standard view, that it?s old bacteria, long-pressurized plant-energy from the Sun, compressed, baked, heated, compressed in large and small pockets under rock and in sand and in shale, around the world.
But, it?s pure speculation, as anything and everything about more than 5 years in the past or the future tends to be. (Want to take a stock prediction about 2018? ?Sell.?) Such is the overpowering influence of the human imagination.
But, who knows? So oil looks like old, broken algae under the microscope? Even a major proponent of Peak Oil theory, Kenneth Deffeyes, likes ?algae? as a partial fill-in for oil, because oil?uhm?comes from?Well, read on.
Hint: Algae. Plant fat. And so, he reasons, it might do, in a pinch. With some ? many ? caveats. Link. Link.
Here?s another webhound, doing a review of ?Hubbert?s Peak?:
?Where does oil come from? All oil beds are aquatic in origin. Oil starts out as organic material, any kind of organic material, from algae to dead fish to organic material found in fish fecal pellets. This material must sink to an oxygen-free bottom where the absence of oxygen allows it to decay. Then it must be covered with other sediment and pushed into the ?oil window? which starts at a depth of 7,500 feet deep and ends at 15,000 feet in depth. Above 7,500 feet, the temperature is not hot enough to ?crack? the organic material into oil molecules and below 15,000 feet, everything is cracked all the way into natural gas. Inside that window, the temperature is at ?coffee pot? levels and after a few million years, the organic material is cracked into oil.? LINK
So, we?re talking fat. Fat from algae, fat from the fish that eat it, within a predictable ?depth-window? of reactivity or chemical processing. That?s the ?controversial? mainstream argument. Which makes some sense to yours truly, as fat is the most nutrient-dense, calorie-rich stuff produced by plant or animal. Collect a lot of it, bake and compress it, and maybe you get this sticky, black?uhm??OIL.? Can I get a ?duh? or an ?amen, somebody?
Hey, I?m being snarky. Sorry, but, it?s tiring. Arguing alien technology is a little tiring when we?re fracking the whole country ? and so is arguing this, when ? yeah! We?re fracking the whole country, and the technophiles want to build 10,000 nuclear power plants (which we don?t have enough oil, coal, natural gas or uranium to do ? but? never mind! Don?t be anti-progress!)
Putting Abiotic Oil To The Drill Test
But, algae, fat. So what? Just a coincidence, perhaps. Perhaps not! But, let?s hear the counter-argument: Here is a technical review (by Dale Allen Pfeiffer) of oil and its infancy from Mike Ruppert?s ?From the Wilderness,? which broke the 9/11 story (or did it? Hold that thought!)
?From 1986 to 1992, two commercial wells were drilled in the Siljan crater [which was argued to be "abiotic" in origin], at a reported cost of over $60 million. Only 80 barrels of oily sludge were taken from the field. While Dr. Gold claimed this oil to have an abiotic origin, others have pointed out that the early drilling used injected oil as a lubricant, and that this is the likely origin of the oily sludge. It has also been mentioned that sedimentary rocks 20 kilometers away could have been the source of hydrocarbon seepage. Others have observed that during World War II, the Swedish blasted into the bedrock to produce caverns in order to stockpile petroleum supplies. The Swedes now face environmental problems as these petroleum stockpiles are leaking into the groundwater. These stockpiles could well provide the source of the oil produced from the Siljan crater.
Even if we grant that these hydrocarbons are abiogenic (though it is a highly dubious claim), this exploration could only be termed a success in the most attenuated sense of the word. These 80 barrels of oily sludge cost investors three quarters of a million dollars per barrel. And if they had gone to the trouble of extracting the oil from the sludge and refining it, they would have had even less oil, and their expenses would have increased by the cost of extraction and refining.? LINK
And that?s about how it goes. That?s how it always goes. It?s always a bit of crap or junk, or seepage from a field into an old well. But it ain?t all-you-can-eat hot buttered pancakes.
The Consensus Never Rests Here
I don?t hold much with consensus, as Jack knows, but field geology is not laboratory fiddling. It?s digging into rock, draining a resource, and moving onto new rock.
The argument that ?oil is made anew because science by consensus is bad,? is on par with saying ?because Big Bang theory is a fraud (and it is ? see Ch 9 of Official Stories? for the argument), then Newtonian Physics is also a fraud.?
But, Newtonian physics works ? with large and small solid objects in 3 dimensional space. Newtonian physics cannot account for electromagnetic effects ? and that is the failure of ?big bang? theology (it excludes the EM force).
Look ? oil is very old stuff. It looks like algae ? ancient algae, heated, pressurized, and in large, but limited supply, located by region and depth in specific types of rock. It is generally predictable based on topography.
And if we want to skip the record, and go to ?ad hominems,? let me offer that these petrol geologists who have blown the whistle on the decline of the major fields are not power players, moving nations into gun sights; they are generally quiet, serious-minded researchers, doing due diligence.
In fact, Colin J. Campbell, who you can watch talking oil (above), is the first person I have seen on record (in April, 2002, hombres) explaining that 9/11 was most likely a fudge-job, based on the newly announced ?discovery? of 200 billion barrels of oil ? some 7 years of world use ? in the Caspian Sea. For which Afghanistan would be a necessary PIPELINE territory. He pointed out that the ?man in a cave? argument from the United States was most probably an invention, as the US needed the territory and oil. But ? the Caspian was proven, by drilling to contain only a fraction of that, some 13 billion barrels, and both Exxon and BP pulled out ? and the US lost all interest in Afghanistan, and suddenly became excited about Iraq ? the world?s #2 resource for oil, after Saudi Arabia. LINK.
Follow? He?s not a power player, a bad guy, etc. But, you can read his data ? he makes it all publicly available. No, it?s not an argument in favor of oil as plant and animal fat. I?m only trying to identify the man?s politics and funding. He is a petrol geologist ? he is, in many ways, biting the hand that fed him. He?s retired. He can get away with it. He?s retired to a tiny town in rural Ireland, and he seems to intend on speaking to the world about graduating from being over-consumers of everything, to being a little gentler on the old gas pedal. LINK.? LINK.
But, back to oil and its many arguments. Where does it come from? Even the CIA factbook (wikipedia) treads lightly, without political overtones here:
?Although the abiogenic hypothesis was accepted by many geologists in the former Soviet Union, it fell out of favor at the end of the 20th century because it never made any useful prediction for the discovery of oil deposits.[1] The abiogenic origin of petroleum has also recently been reviewed in detail by Glasby, who raises a number of objections, including that there is no direct evidence to date of abiogenic petroleum (liquid crude oil and long-chain hydrocarbon compounds).[1] Geologists now consider the abiogenic formation of petroleum scientifically unsupported, and they agree that petroleum is formed from organic material.[1] However, the abiogenic theory can?t be dismissed yet because the mainstream theory still has to be established conclusively.?
This is an immensely fair reading for the Wikipedia ? they give a great deal of space to pro and con arguments. The trouble is, wells and fields do go quite dry ? that is, they become unproductive. Sometimes, there has been some ?creep? of petrol into dry wells from the larger fields, but that is expected by gravity and pressure-induced movement.
The reality is, fields that were used up 100 years ago are still used up. Titusville, PA, has not returned to its glory days. Spindletop in Texas is not gushing 100,000 barrels of oil anymore. It is now a museum.
?Production at Spindletop began to decline rapidly after 1902, and the wells produced only 10,000 barrels per day (1,600 m3/d) by 1904.[2] On November 14, 1925, the Yount-Lee Oil Company brought in its McFaddin No. 2 at a depth of about 2,500 feet (800 m), sparking a second boom, which culminated in the field?s peak production year of 1927, during which 21 millions barrels (3.3 GL) were produced.[2] Over the ten years following the McFaddin discovery, more than 72 million barrels (11.4 GL) of oil were produced, mostly from the newer areas of the field.[citation needed] Spindletop continued as a productive source of oil until about 1936. It was then mined for sulfur from the 1950s to about 1975.? LINK
Or, I should say, the museum is a mile and a half from where it started. So, what happened to the most productive gusher in the U.S.?
?The Lucas Gusher monument, derrick simulator and Historical markers are located at the museum, but the actual location of the gusher that started it all is about 1.5 miles south of the museum at an out of the way place named Spindletop Park which is at these coordinates N30? 00.718 W94? 04.626. There are no structures or markers at this location to indicate its significance and (as of April 15, 2012) there was no sign on the main road indicating where you should turn off to reach this remote nondescript park.?
Well, we?re heartless bastards, aren?t we? Not even a gravestone to announce the death of a nation. (By the way ? Sulfur ? is precisely what?s coming out of Tar Sands and Shale Oil. Because that?s what you find at the bottom of old wells or in ?heavy crude.? It makes the oil very hard to use, and expensive ? and even more toxic ? to refine.)
What?s Wrong with Abiotic Oil?
Nothing. Or, it?s irrelevant, because it doesn?t impact oil use or production ? at all. So, what?s this big, long, hairy freaking article about? What?s my freaking problem??
My problem with this argument is that it leads people, or could lead them, to a dangerous position of complacency or false optimism about the amount of oil produced, used ? and the need to make significant changes. It induces stupor ? and I am against that.
But I am oh-so-fair and generous. I am! Just ask.. well. Me. But. And. So. I will certainly include a sub-chapter on the arguments against Peak Oil or in favor of Abiotic Oil in my book? and I?ll include the various analysis from geologists, which will feature findings like the above, with specific references to the few small fields that were argued to be ?abiotic,? but later were demonstrated to be most likely just local seepage.
The point is: it?s all fucking old shit. The oil, the argument, etc. The oil is old, old stuff. It looks like algae. That?s what it looks like under the microscope. Which is probably because that?s what it is, or likely is.
?It is believed that the majority of oil and natural gas originates from algae in ancient oceans. Oil (petroleum) consists of liquid hydrocarbons which arc compounds composed of carbon and hydrogen. At least 80% w/w of oil is carbon. The remainder is principally hydrogen, but sulfur and oxygen may each account for up to 5% of the weight of oil. The burning heating volume of oil is relatively high owing to its liquid state, and is comparable to that of coal.?
Note that the natural scientists in this field are not dogmatic. The world used is ?believed? not ?known.? These are not virus-hunters. They are many degrees more practical. They are field geologists. Their laboratory is REALITY. Which is where I suggest you go to do your reading. Because ignoring a REALITY of sea-water pumped by the megaton into Saudi Arabia would be to convince them of a lie. (LINK and Search ?Sea water pumping into Ghwar, Saudi Arabia?)
And, let me ask ? please don?t do that. I?m sure it?s not Jack?s intention, and don?t let it be yours. Don?t let hypothetical, argumentative or wishful thinking take your eye of the ball. Because the ball is in play.
Why Does It Matter?
Oil ? It?s What?s For Dinner. It?s in everything you do, wear, eat and enjoy, here at the Western World. And we?re not brewing more of it, it?s not bubbling out anew from the la Brea tar pits or Canadian tar sands. What?s there is there, still and stagnant, and being used, when we dig it out and up, at 90 million barrels per day, worldwide.
That?s a depletion of a total reserve at the level of 90 million barrels per day. That is many hundreds of thousands of tons. No one is brewing that out of good wishes, or the bowels of the Earth, or any other place, at that rate. The rate of well-refilling is approximately zero, as far as anyone can tell.
So, what?s it all about? We are rapidly depleting cheap, easily-available, light, sweet crude oil.
Here is a list of countries that have, by their own production and exports, peaked and either fallen into hard economic times, got into the production of other sources of energy, or became a net importer and held onto oil by other means. LINK
Well? it?ll be in the book. But, I?m afraid the other arguments ? nuclear versus solar/wind/hydro ? have my attention. Because that?s the argument that the parasites that be are going to give us ? and many will argue for nuclear. Which should perhaps startle a bit.
After all, what does it matter? Ghwar has peaked. The decline will most likely be much faster than anybody wants it to be. We?re digging and boiling tar and blowing up shale to hold off the inevitable. The techno-crowd wants us to believe that carbon and plastic cars and houses with better faucets and plumbing will save us.
Meanwhile?we?re all getting fracked.
And, just to let you know how recent this all is ? how new it is ? I had to ask my computer to ?learn new spelling? for that word. This is an emergency. And any argument about origins of oil are going to have to get in line. We?ve got bigger fat to fry, presently.
Fair? Fair. Now, go plant a permaculture forest, and do something fracking useful, why don?t you??
Whew. Hopefully Jack keeps me on the show ? it?s always a blast. Look for the archives for our soon-to-be famous on-air almost-good-humor debates. Much appreciated, Jack for the challenge.
Source: http://deadlinelive.info/2013/07/13/the-jack-blood-abiotic-oil-challenge-accepted/
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Ballistic Smooth Series For iPad Mini: A Good Balance Between Looks & Protection [Review]
Made from durable thermoplastic polyurethane, the Ballistic Smooth Series case for iPad mini aims to provide even the clumsiest of owners with all the protection they?ll need for their beloved tablet. And it does so without adding too much bulk.
Smooth Series by Ballistic
Category: Cases
Works With: iPad mini
Price: $39.99
?Your new iPad mini is a sleek and sexy piece of technology, we want to make sure you can keep it that way,? Ballistic says. ?We developed the Ballistic Smooth Series case for the iPad mini. This case offers the best of both worlds, it is slim but still offers a lot of protection from the hazards of daily use.?
The Smooth Series comes in four colors ??black, hot pink, charcoal, and purple ??all of which include four sets of replaceable corner bumpers in a variety of different colors, so you can customize its look to suit you. It?s priced at $39.99, so let?s find out whether it?s worth it.
The Good
Ballistic clearly made protection a priority with the Smooth Series case, and that shows. It has thick edges and corners that?ll prevent your iPad mini from getting damaged when you drop it, and there?s a generous lip around the front edge that?ll protect its display.
These thick corners give the Smooth Series plenty of impact resistance.
These things add bulk, but not too much; Ballistic has found a good balance. While there?s plenty of material here to absorb impact from even the nastiest of falls, it?s nowhere near as big or as heavy as some protective cases.
The Smooth Series leaves you headphone jack, Lightning port, cameras, and speakers exposed for easy access, but it covers your sleep/wake and volume buttons. Although the case is thick and sturdy, those buttons are surprisingly easy to press, and you won?t need to apply any more force than you would to naked buttons.
There?s plenty of room for your iPad mini?s mute switch, so you can get your index finger or thumb in to flick it back and forth quite easily. Ballistic has also left a lot of room around the Lightning port, which means you can use thicker, third-party Lightning cables without any problems.
The Smooth Series feels nice in the hand. It?s smooth, as its name suggests, while the grooves in its back add grip. I also found the thick corners comfortable to hold while gaming ??far more comfortable than a naked iPad, which can cut into your hands after long periods.
The Bad
The Smooth Series? design isn?t the prettiest, and although it?attempts to preserve the iPad mini?s sleek and sexy form factor, its thick plastic and bulky corners prevent that. Unfortunately, this is a sacrifice you make with protection-focused cases ??they?re always going to be a little bigger than basic gel or snap-on cases.
The Smooth Series has a thick front edge to protect your display.
With that said, it?s up to you to decide whether looks or impact protection are most important to you. But as I mentioned above, the Smooth Series is one of thinner and prettier protective cases you?ll find.
The other downside with the Smooth Series is that it does not accommodate Apple?s Smart Cover. It does protect your display somewhat, but it?s always nice when you can use cases like this in conjunction with the Smart Cover.
The Verdict
If you?re not very good at holding onto your iPad mini and you need a good case that?s going to protect it from all the drops, then the Smooth Series from Ballistic is certainly worth checking out.
Its thick corners will provide better protection than basic iPad mini cases, and it?s not as big or as ugly as other cases of its kind.
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DAVID FLORES: Roosevelt's Carroll first black NEISD head football coach
Roosevelt High School football coach Matt Carroll didn't set out to make history. It just worked out that way.
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But make no mistake: Carroll, 41, doesn't take the significance of his hiring lightly.
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When he got the job at Roosevelt in mid-March, Carroll quietly broke through a barrier by becoming the first African-American head football coach in the 63-year history of the North East Independent School District.
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"I didn't think a whole lot about it initially, but people have brought it up as I've gone into the community," Carroll said. "I know it's important to some of them. The kids may see that more, too. I'm here to motivate all our kids, but I think it's important that they see someone like me can get there and do the job."
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Carroll, who grew up in West Texas and graduated from Andrews High School, was head coach at Waco University High School for five seasons before succeeding Neal LaHue at Roosevelt. The Trojans went 20-32 and made the playoffs once under Carroll.
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"It was a great thing to see Matt get the Roosevelt job," said Brackenridge coach Willie Hall, one of seven African-American head football coaches in Greater San Antonio. "Black kids notice when somebody that looks like them gets that position, and they talk about it. As the saying goes, seeing is believing.
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?It?s like when Obama became president. It opened a lot of doors for a lot of kids in different ways. The mental aspect of something like that is very important. It can?t be overstated.?
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Roosevelt?s enrollment during the past school year was 57.3 percent Hispanic, 18.6 percent African-American and 15.5 percent white.
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Carroll former Roosevelt assistant coach
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Even though Carroll was born in Denver City near the Texas-New Mexico border, his hiring at Roosevelt was a homecoming of sorts. He began his career at the school on Walzem Road as an assistant under Bryan Dausin in 1995, when the Rough Riders won the 5A Division II state title.
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?I?ve told our kids now that I was fortunate to be here back then,? Carroll said. ?Some of the players on the ?95 team still call me. It was a very special group and we developed everlasting relationships.?
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Carroll coached the running backs at Roosevelt for 11 seasons, the last nine when Glenn Hill was head coach, before going on to a two-year stint as offensive coordinator at Reagan.
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When LaHue resigned at Roosevelt in mid-February to become head coach at Hays, Carroll became the popular choice to succeed him. ?
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?Roosevelt has always been home to me,? Carroll said. ?This is where I want to be. That?s made the transition easier for me. I?ve always wanted to work in the North East district because of the emphasis it puts on academics and athletics. Coaches are held to a different standard. I feel that I have an opportunity to make a difference at Roosevelt. That?s what intrigued me about the job.?
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Carroll and his wife, Dawn, have two sons, Bryson, 14, and Brennan, 7. Bryson will be a freshman quarterback at Roosevelt this season.
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Carroll applied for a promotion at Roosevelt when Hill resigned in 2006 to take the head-coaching job at Conroe Caney Creek, but LaHue got the nod and Carroll left to join David Wetzel?s staff at Reagan.
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?I hadn?t ever been a head coach, so I knew I had to go outside the district and get a head-coaching job,? Carroll said.
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His opportunity came at Waco University in 2008. The Trojans had their best season under Carroll in 2009, when they went 7-5 and reached the second round of the 4A Division II playoffs.
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Dausin: Carroll 'a great?fit' for Roosevelt community?
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Carroll praised longtime NEISD athletic director Jerry Comalander for giving him the opportunity to head the Roosevelt program. Besides being head football coach, Carroll is also the school?s athletic coordinator. ??
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?Any success the North East district has in athletics starts with Coach Comalander because of all the good things he does for the entire athletic program,? Carroll said.
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Dausin and Hill were among the first to congratulate Carroll when he got the job at Roosevelt.
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"He is a great fit for that community," said Dausin, a Roosevelt graduate who is now head coach at Warren in the Northside ISD. "He understands the dynamics. More importantly, he brings all that tradition he helped establish when he coached at Roosevelt.
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"Matt can get along with a lot of different people and he cares about kids, works very well with kids. He has a great disposition and is a great people person. He's a hard worker and knows what he wants to do. I'm very proud of him."
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Hill, who was Dausin's defensive coordinator at Roosevelt before succeeding him as head coach, also was ebullient in his praise of Carroll.
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"I'm very hesitant to use the word 'proud' because it sounds like I've had more to do with his success than I really have," said Hill, now head coach at Churchill. "But he is a great person and he was a huge part of the success we had at Roosevelt. He was truly my right-hand man.
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"I never used the title assistant head coach, but he filled that role for me. He took on some responsibilities and did a great job. I knew he was going to be a successful head coach. I'm proud of his work ethic, proud of his character. He does things the right way."
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Carroll expressed his gratitude to both Dausin and Hill.
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"I learned so much from Coach Dausin and Coach Hill," Carroll said. "Not only about football, but how to treat kids."
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College coach a father figure to Carroll
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Carroll and his twin, Mike, were the youngest of nine children born to Mae and A.J. Carroll, who farmed for a living near Seminole.
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?We lived out in the country,? Carroll said. ?I started working in the fields when I was a kid. I was only 10 when I learned how to drive an International D-17 tractor. All we knew was work. My dad was a perfectionist. The crops we had was what we made a living on. There was no room for error.
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?I think about that mentality as a coach now and what we do on the football field. I always tell our kids that it translates to the real world. They?re going to have a job one day. If you mess up as a football player, it will cost you playing time. But if you mess up in life, it will cost you your job.?
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Carroll was only 11 when his father died of complications from diabetes at age 45 in 1984.
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?My mom was a single mom and we struggled through a lot of hard times,? Carroll said. ?But she did a great job of raising us.?
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A standout running back at Andrews, Carroll played college football at Hardin-Simmons under Jimmie Keeling. It didn?t take long for Keeling to become a father figure to Carroll.
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?He stepped into that role,? Carroll said. ?My mother did everything she could as a single mother, but coaches have always played a big part in my life. They bridged that gap that was missing. I became very close to Coach Keeling and I still talk to him often.?
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First as a player and then a coach, Carroll found his calling on the football field.
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?There was no doubt about what I wanted to do for a living,? Carroll said. ?I wanted to do the same thing for kids that my coaches did for me. I want to get up every day and try to make a difference in their lives.?
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Welcome home, Coach Carroll.
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The Matt Carroll file
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Born: June 10, 1972, in Denver City.
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Family: Wife, Dawn. Children, Bryson, 14, and Brennan, 7.
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Education: Graduated from Andrews High School in 1990, earned bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Hardin-Simmons in 1995, and master's degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Phoenix in 2007.?
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Football career: Played running back at Hardin-Simmons for four seasons (1990-93).
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Coaching career: Roosevelt running backs coach, 1995-2005; Reagan offensive coordinator, 2006-07; Waco University head coach 2008-12.
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Career record: 20-32.
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Noteworthy: Carroll coached the running backs at Roosevelt in 1995 when the Rough Riders won the Class 5A Division II state championship and finished 16-0.
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Friday, July 12, 2013
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Sony makes water-resistant smartphone
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Think of a leading phone maker. Apple and Samsung might come to mind - maybe even HTC, maker of the well-received One.
But you're probably not thinking Sony, a company better known for TVs, cameras and video game machines.
Sony's new Xperia Z, unveiled on Wednesday in the US, helps Sony catch up with offerings from Samsung and HTC, but one feature stands out - its water-resistant shell means the phone can be submerged.
That's great if you're prone to dropping your phone outdoors in wet weather or spilling coffee near it.
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Sony says the device can be submerged at least one metre deep for 30 minutes, though it's possible the phone will work if it's deeper or immersed for longer.
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Calpers postpones launch of online pensions database
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's pension fund for public employees said on Wednesday it would postpone launching a database that would make details of its members' pension benefits public after three employee groups said they would press lawmakers to restrict information available through the feature.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System had planned to launch the searchable database on its website next week but said it would delay doing so pending the outcome of legislation that retiree groups will propose to limit retiree-related information available under state law.
The $259 billion fund, best known as Calpers, had intended to make available through the database the names of retirees along with information on their monthly pension payments, cost-of-living adjustments, retirement dates, benefit formulas, final compensation and years of service.
Calpers spokeswoman Amy Norris said the fund was motivated to launch the database to improve transparency, noting state law already requires the fund to release the information upon request.
Birth dates, health information and addresses of Calpers' members would not be available as they are not subject to release through California's Public Records Act, Norris said.
But three groups for public employees and retirees said Calpers would put too much information available online.
CDF Firefighters, the Retired Public Employees Association and the Peace Officers Research Association of California plan to ask lawmakers for a bill that would at the very least prevent names of retirees from appearing in such databases.
"The names are the biggest problem," said Terry McHale, a spokesman for CDF Firefighters, which represents about 6,500 firefighters. "We believe in clarity and open government like everyone else but we have to balance privacy interests."
Calpers had sought to ease privacy concerns when it notified associations for its retired and currently employed members through a newsletter last month, Norris said.
"We believe our member data will remain better protected on our own website rather than on external databases kept by news or other organizations," the newsletter said.
Pension costs have become a major concern in recent years for governments across the nation dealing with budget cuts, and activists have used public records laws to build databases on pension benefits for campaigns promoting reforms to them.
California Governor Jerry Brown last year signed legislation to reduce pension costs after voters in San Diego and San Jose, the state's second- and third-biggest cities respectively, approved measures to rein in local pension expenses.
Calpers has more than 1.6 million members, including more than 551,000 retirees, beneficiaries and survivors who receive monthly benefits.
(Reporting by Jim Christie; Editing by Diane Craft)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calpers-postpones-launch-online-pensions-database-001828800.html
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Mass. goes after Wall St; says it targets seniors?
16 hours ago
Mark Lennihan / AP
In this Sept. 30, 2008 file photo, a Wall St. sign hangs in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
Massachusetts' top securities regulator has hit top Wall Street firms with a blanket of subpoenas, saying he fears elderly people are being targeted for high-risk, alternative investment products.
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin said on Wednesday that subpoenas have gone out to a group of firms including Morgan Stanley, UBS AG, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America Corp's Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo & Co and Charles Schwab Corp.
Galvin said a recent investigation into real estate investment trusts (REITs) heightened his concern that elderly investors were being targeted with products too complex for them to understand the underlying risks.
"While these products are not unsuitable in and of themselves, they are accidents waiting to happen when they are sold to inexperienced investors by untrained agents who push the products to score the large commissions associated with alternative investments," Galvin said in a press release.
The subpoenas seek information about the sale of the products to seniors in Massachusetts, and regarding supervision, compliance and training at the firms, Galvin's office said. Alternative investments cited by Galvin included REITs, oil and gas partnerships and private placement offerings.
In May, Galvin's office announced a settlement with five independent broker-dealers who agreed to pay at least $9.6 million in fines and restitution to settle what regulators called their improper sales of non-traded REITs.
Among the companies named on Wednesday, spokespeople for Bank of America and Morgan Stanley declined to comment. A Wells Fargo spokesman said via e-mai: "The only statement we have at this point is that our policy is to cooperate fully with our regulators."
Representatives of the other companies did not immediately respond to questions.
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Moms need help to overcome breastfeeding worries, study says
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More support is needed to help women overcome doubts in the hope that they will breastfeed their babies for longer, says a University of Alberta nutrition researcher.
A study conducted by the University of Alberta in Canada found that new moms are weaning their infants early instead of feeding them just breast milk for the first six months of life, said Anna Farmer, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science and the Centre for Health Promotion Studies. That falls below recommendations made by the World Health Organization and endorsed in 2004 by Health Canada and the Canadian Paediatric Society.
"Women's attitudes towards breastfeeding even before the baby is born can predict whether or not moms are going to breastfeed, so it is important that everything from the home environment to public spaces supports nursing moms," said Farmer. "We need to address their concerns and misconceptions about breastfeeding, especially young first-time mothers."
Farmer and her colleagues surveyed 402 pregnant women at three months postpartum and 300 of them again at the six-month mark, and found that though almost 99 per cent of the women started out breastfeeding their babies, only 54 per cent were still exclusively breastfeeding three months after giving birth. That number dropped again to 15 per cent by six months, in line with the national average, which is also low for breastfeeding.
The study, published recently in BMC Pediatrics, found that 54 per cent of the women had neutral attitudes towards breastfeeding, as did 53 per cent of the mothers who fed their infants formula during the first six months after birth. More than half of the women in the study stopped breastfeeding because of their perceptions of milk inadequacy or other problems.
The study also found that women with post-graduate university degrees were 37 per cent more likely to breastfeed exclusively for six months as opposed to those without a degree. As well, mothers with previous children were more likely to breastfeed for longer.
Farmer advises new moms to breastfeed for as long as possible, even on a partial basis. "Some breast milk is better than none."
Farmer hopes the research findings will help doctors, nurses and other health practitioners provide advice to pregnant women with a focus on what may or may not be known about exclusive, long-term breastfeeding, to help promote the practice beyond the first few months after birth.
The study also recommends more policy provision for nursing rooms in public facilities. "The social environment needs to be more open. Women need spaces where they can breastfeed quietly without feeling ashamed," Farmer said.
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University of Alberta
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Share ] Contact: Bev Betkowski
bev.betkowski@ualberta.ca
780-492-3808
University of Alberta
More support is needed to help women overcome doubts in the hope that they will breastfeed their babies for longer, says a University of Alberta nutrition researcher.
A study conducted by the University of Alberta in Canada found that new moms are weaning their infants early instead of feeding them just breast milk for the first six months of life, said Anna Farmer, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science and the Centre for Health Promotion Studies. That falls below recommendations made by the World Health Organization and endorsed in 2004 by Health Canada and the Canadian Paediatric Society.
"Women's attitudes towards breastfeeding even before the baby is born can predict whether or not moms are going to breastfeed, so it is important that everything from the home environment to public spaces supports nursing moms," said Farmer. "We need to address their concerns and misconceptions about breastfeeding, especially young first-time mothers."
Farmer and her colleagues surveyed 402 pregnant women at three months postpartum and 300 of them again at the six-month mark, and found that though almost 99 per cent of the women started out breastfeeding their babies, only 54 per cent were still exclusively breastfeeding three months after giving birth. That number dropped again to 15 per cent by six months, in line with the national average, which is also low for breastfeeding.
The study, published recently in BMC Pediatrics, found that 54 per cent of the women had neutral attitudes towards breastfeeding, as did 53 per cent of the mothers who fed their infants formula during the first six months after birth. More than half of the women in the study stopped breastfeeding because of their perceptions of milk inadequacy or other problems.
The study also found that women with post-graduate university degrees were 37 per cent more likely to breastfeed exclusively for six months as opposed to those without a degree. As well, mothers with previous children were more likely to breastfeed for longer.
Farmer advises new moms to breastfeed for as long as possible, even on a partial basis. "Some breast milk is better than none."
Farmer hopes the research findings will help doctors, nurses and other health practitioners provide advice to pregnant women with a focus on what may or may not be known about exclusive, long-term breastfeeding, to help promote the practice beyond the first few months after birth.
The study also recommends more policy provision for nursing rooms in public facilities. "The social environment needs to be more open. Women need spaces where they can breastfeed quietly without feeling ashamed," Farmer said.
###
For more information/an interview on the study contact:
Professor Anna Farmer
University of Alberta
Department of Food, Agricultural and Nutritional Science
780-492-2693
anna.farmer@ualberta.ca
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Updated: Hillary Clinton addresses women leaders at Bryn Mawr College
Former Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a cheering capacity crowd Tuesday afternoon in Thomas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr College, including women leaders from three dozen countries around the world emerging from conflict.
As the keynote speaker in a two-week session of the Women in Public Service Project Institute meeting at the college, Clinton said inspiring and encouraging more women to ?step up and put themselves on the line? to be leaders in their communities and nations is not only the goal of the project she launched two years ago. It may be the path to peace-building and positive development in ?this complicated, difficult, dangerous and threatening world.?
Toward that end, the Women in Public Service Project, a collaboration between the Department of State and the academic community, with women?s colleges like Bryn Mawr taking the lead, has set a goal: to see 50 percent of public service positions worldwide held by women by the year 2050.
That is an ambitious goal, given some well-known statistics: Tens of millions of girls denied attendance in school; only about 20 percent of seats in legislatures and parliaments worldwide held by women. In many parts of the world, ?deeply-ingrained prejudices and cultural taboos? stand in the way.
Continued
But it is a goal Clinton is convinced is achievable, given the example of the 44 delegates to this second annual institute. ?In 2050, I will be 103 years old,? she told the predominantly female crowd of faculty, staff and students. Not only does she intend to still be around. ?I intend to see that we have succeeded,? she said.
In that respect, Bryn Mawr College, whose Welsh name, loosely translated, means ?big hill,? was the perfect place for this year?s delegates to meet, Clinton noted.
?We know we have a big hill to climb. If this were easy, it would already have been done. . . . Let?s keep our eye on the goal. Let?s continue to collect the evidence, and encourage more women and girls to put themselves on the line? to be leaders.
The ?evidence? she referred to is out there to indicate that women in leadership make a difference in events, and gathering it should be one goal of the project. ?I?m a big believer in evidence,? Clinton said. ?It?s not enough in today?s world to say we should do something because it is the right thing to do.? Continued...
When she took her most recent office, Clinton said she stood by her famous words at a women?s conference in Beijing in 1995: that ?human rights are women?s rights, and women?s rights are human rights.? ?But I knew that a speech is not policy, and a speech by itself does not create change. I was determined that women and girls be integrated into our policy because the evidence was compelling: that if women participate in their economies, their economies grow, more people are employed, more children have better futures.?On the other hand, ?If women are kept out of politics by legal restraints or cultural taboos, their countries lose the benefits of their participation. If women are not at the table, the discussion can?t be fully representative of the needs of all the people.?
?In peace-building and development, we have seen over and over again the difference women can make,? she went on to say, recounting with compelling emotion the example of the long and devastating civil war in Liberia, a country from which some of this year?s delegates come. It was women of all stations of life coming together to say, ?Finally, enough,? that changed that country?s course to end the violence.
But another goal of the Women in Public Service Project, Clinton said, should be ?to expand what we mean by women?s leadership.? ?Of course, I and all of you want to see more women as heads of state and government,? she said, adding, in her only bow to speculation that she will again be a presidential candidate, ?I get in trouble when I say that.? But she finished by saying that ?just having a woman as head of government may or may not change what happens below that woman.?
Directing her comments to the delegates specifically, she said, ?We need more people supporting leaders who themselves are leaders. We need more leaders who will stand against corruption. We need more leaders who will say no to business as usual, who will wake up each day and say, ?What can I do this day to help more people live up to their God-given potential.? We need leaders in every aspect of society.?
That will require ?a lot of courage and persistence. It will take building coalitions with people you think you have nothing in common with, . . . to break down the lines that divide us.?
So, yes, the Women in Public Service Project is about the delegates as members of a new generation of women leaders.
?But it is so much more,? Clinton said. ?It is about laying down a marker that in this complicated, difficult, dangerous and threatening world, we can do better in so many places.?
Former Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a cheering capacity crowd Tuesday afternoon in Thomas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr College, including women leaders from three dozen countries around the world emerging from conflict.As the keynote speaker in a two-week session of the Women in Public Service Project Institute meeting at the college, Clinton said inspiring and encouraging more women to ?step up and put themselves on the line? to be leaders in their communities and nations is not only the goal of the project she launched two years ago. It may be the path to peace-building and positive development in ?this complicated, difficult, dangerous and threatening world.?
Toward that end, the Women in Public Service Project, a collaboration between the Department of State and the academic community, with women?s colleges like Bryn Mawr taking the lead, has set a goal: to see 50 percent of public service positions worldwide held by women by the year 2050.
That is an ambitious goal, given some well-known statistics: Tens of millions of girls denied attendance in school; only about 20 percent of seats in legislatures and parliaments worldwide held by women. In many parts of the world, ?deeply-ingrained prejudices and cultural taboos? stand in the way.
Continued
But it is a goal Clinton is convinced is achievable, given the example of the 44 delegates to this second annual institute. ?In 2050, I will be 103 years old,? she told the predominantly female crowd of faculty, staff and students. Not only does she intend to still be around. ?I intend to see that we have succeeded,? she said.
In that respect, Bryn Mawr College, whose Welsh name, loosely translated, means ?big hill,? was the perfect place for this year?s delegates to meet, Clinton noted.
?We know we have a big hill to climb. If this were easy, it would already have been done. . . . Let?s keep our eye on the goal. Let?s continue to collect the evidence, and encourage more women and girls to put themselves on the line? to be leaders.
The ?evidence? she referred to is out there to indicate that women in leadership make a difference in events, and gathering it should be one goal of the project. ?I?m a big believer in evidence,? Clinton said. ?It?s not enough in today?s world to say we should do something because it is the right thing to do.?
When she took her most recent office, Clinton said she stood by her famous words at a women?s conference in Beijing in 1995: that ?human rights are women?s rights, and women?s rights are human rights.? ?But I knew that a speech is not policy, and a speech by itself does not create change. I was determined that women and girls be integrated into our policy because the evidence was compelling: that if women participate in their economies, their economies grow, more people are employed, more children have better futures.?
On the other hand, ?If women are kept out of politics by legal restraints or cultural taboos, their countries lose the benefits of their participation. If women are not at the table, the discussion can?t be fully representative of the needs of all the people.?
?In peace-building and development, we have seen over and over again the difference women can make,? she went on to say, recounting with compelling emotion the example of the long and devastating civil war in Liberia, a country from which some of this year?s delegates come. It was women of all stations of life coming together to say, ?Finally, enough,? that changed that country?s course to end the violence.
But another goal of the Women in Public Service Project, Clinton said, should be ?to expand what we mean by women?s leadership.? ?Of course, I and all of you want to see more women as heads of state and government,? she said, adding, in her only bow to speculation that she will again be a presidential candidate, ?I get in trouble when I say that.? But she finished by saying that ?just having a woman as head of government may or may not change what happens below that woman.?
Directing her comments to the delegates specifically, she said, ?We need more people supporting leaders who themselves are leaders. We need more leaders who will stand against corruption. We need more leaders who will say no to business as usual, who will wake up each day and say, ?What can I do this day to help more people live up to their God-given potential.? We need leaders in every aspect of society.?
That will require ?a lot of courage and persistence. It will take building coalitions with people you think you have nothing in common with, . . . to break down the lines that divide us.?
So, yes, the Women in Public Service Project is about the delegates as members of a new generation of women leaders.
?But it is so much more,? Clinton said. ?It is about laying down a marker that in this complicated, difficult, dangerous and threatening world, we can do better in so many places.?
Source: http://mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2013/07/10/main_line_times/news/doc51dc606ebea4b852447613.txt
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Garmin developing a HUD accessory for your smartphone
Device offers navigation directions, speed data, traffic information and more -- all displayed in your field of vision
Garmin has sent out a press release about an upcoming product that has a cool factor off the charts. This small HUD (Heads-Up Display) unit connects to your smart phone via Bluetooth, and beams pertinent navigation information on to a small screen attached to your car windshield or to an included reflector screen.
Using the Navigon app for Android (starting at $29.99, price based on included maps), the Garmin HUD can tell you directions, your speed, ETA, traffic and safety tips, and even offer lane assist to help keep traffic flowing at busy highway interchanges. Along with easy to see turn indicators, the Garmin HUD will help keep your eyes on the road instead of on your phone's display. To round out the features, the HUD even offers USB power pass-through to keep your phone charging while using the system for navigation.
Not yet officially available, the device has not yet received FCC certification. Garmin must be pretty confident that the unit will be approved, as they are sending out press releases. The unit will retail for $129.99 and be available online this summer from Garmin. We're curious to give this one a closer look. See the full press release after the break, and follow the link below for more information.
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Nuvilex Benefits From Shifting Stance on Medical Marijuana
BALTIMORE, MD--(Marketwired - Jul 8, 2013) - Goldman Small Cap Research, a stock market research firm focused on the small cap and microcap sectors, notes that the medical marijuana industry received a major boost at the recently concluded annual United States Conference of Mayors. At the event, a unanimous and bipartisan resolution urging the federal government to let states decide for themselves how to handle marijuana policy passed with no speakers rising in opposition. This news, on the heels of New Hampshire becoming the final state in New England to approve a medical marijuana program, serves only to benefit entities engaged in medical marijuana research such as Medical Marijuana Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Nuvilex, Inc. (
Moreover, a series of independent polls over the past few months indicate a disconnect between most U.S. citizens, physicians, and state legislators, and the federal government regarding medical marijuana. For example, a Fox News poll found that 85% of Americans support medical marijuana usage if prescribed by a doctor and 75% of doctors surveyed in a New England Journal of Medicine poll conveyed similar sentiments.?This disconnect is even more apparent if one considers that the U.S. Government, through the Health and Human Services division, was granted a patent (#633507) titled "Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants" that concerns the use of components of medical marijuana for the treatment of neurologic, and other, disorders.
This groundswell of support will eventually lead to the re-classification or downgrade of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 and the greater availability of research grade quantities of marijuana. A change in classification would provide a huge boost to the entire medical marijuana industry as the current category classifies it as a drug with no medicinal value and high potential for abuse, despite the fact that prescription drugs kill more Americans than even hardcore drugs such as heroin and cocaine combined.
As broad, vocal support grows and favorable state legislation continues, the industry is likely to reach a major inflection point as early as 2014.?These events will aid in Nuvilex's formative stages of studying the effect of cannabidiol (CBD)-based cancer treatments (CBD is one of the components of marijuana that are collectively known as cannabinoids) when combined with highly efficacious live-cell encapsulation-based therapies similar to those that have been used for oncologic diseases such as inoperable pancreatic cancer?and breast cancer.?Nuvilex's combination CBD-based cancer studies with live-cell encapsulation therapy development might result in bringing a highly effective product and new delivery system for use to treat multiple diseases and conditions, which would place Nuvilex near the head of the medical marijuana product development class.?
A copy of this article as well as other articles and Nuvilex reports and disclaimers can be accessed by visiting www.goldmanresearch.com.
About Goldman Small Cap Research: Led by former Piper Jaffray analyst and mutual fund manager Rob Goldman, Goldman Small Cap Research produces small cap and micro cap stock research reports, daily stock market blogs, and popular investment newsletters.?For more information, visit www.goldmanresearch.com.
A Goldman Small Cap Research report is not intended as an offering, recommendation, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities mentioned or discussed.?Please read the report's full disclosures and analyst background on our website before investing. Neither Goldman Small Cap Research nor its parent is a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer with FINRA or any other agency. To download our research, view our disclosures, or for more information, visit www.goldmanresearch.com.
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