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Single-sex education for girls: what the research shows
There are many benefits to girls being educated in the single-sex environment of a girls' school where there are no expectations that they should fulfil traditional gender stereotypes in the subjects they study, the activities they participate in or the career they pursue. Research shows that girls have access to all leadership opportunities, achieve greater academic success, and are more confident and assertive in single-sex environments. They are also more likely to study in the 'gender atypical' areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at school and university, and are more likely to pursue a career in these non-traditional areas. Why?
Without competition from boys, girls in girls' schools are free to pursue academic excellence in any area they choose. Research shows that single-sex educated girls receive a less gender-stereotyped development than co-educated girls. Research also shows that girls' in single-sex schools engage in more healthy competition and risk-taking than girls in co-educational schools. Risk taking and competitive traits are advantageous skills for leadership and many careers. The research demonstrates that girls feel empowered to behave in a more competitive ways without the presence of boys.
The following snapshots from recent research literature, as well as use of statistics compiled by the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, the Girls' Schools Association (UK), the Independent Schools Council (UK) and the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (US), demonstrate the many and varied benefits of single-sex schooling for girls. All studies selected were published in 2007 or later. The source of each study can be located in reference list below.
Research shows girls benefit from single-sex environments
• Professor Alison Booth, Public Policy Fellow at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, recently wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits girls and that "the evidence is gathering that women in single-gender classes benefit, and they benefit significantly" (Booth, 2014).
• An experiment undertaken at Essex University, a co-educational university in the UK, by Booth and her British colleagues found that girls randomly assigned to all-female classes in their first year were 7% more likely to pass their introductory economics course than girls in co-ed classes. They also scored 8% higher on their final grade and 10% higher in their required second-year courses, despite only attending single-sex classes in their first year (Booth, Cardona-Sosa & Nolen, 2013, p. 3).
• Bradley, in her American PhD dissertation investigating single-sex education and its impact on academic achievement, concluded that "the single-sex environment provides females with the best opportunity for academic achievement" (Bradley, 2009, p. 119).
• Belfi et al. stated that "single-sex classes are advantageous for girls' school well-being and academic self-concept" (2011, p. 2).
• "Girls in single-sex schools perform better academically than their counterparts in coeducational schools, after holding constant measures of selection, background, peers and school factors" (Cabezas, 2010, p. 227).
• Single-sex education positively impacts the environment and makes it "conducive to heightened student academic achievement" (Scoggins, 2009, p. 82).
• Single-sex schooling strengthens female students' self-confidence and self-assessment of their mathematics skills. "Single-sex schooling thus has profound implications for human capital formation and the mind-set of female students" (Eisenkopf et al., 2011, p. 1).
Stereotype threat, risk-taking and healthy competition
• In their 2013 study, Booth, Cardona-Sosa and Nolen discussed 'stereotype threat', when girls are stereotyped as "bad" at something (such as maths or economics), and conjectured that girls would do better in all-female classes where there is a reduction in "psychological threats caused by studying with males" (p. 16). They concluded that the results of their single-sex class experiment at Essex University, which showed that girls assigned to single-sex classes outperformed those in co-ed classes (see above), demonstrated that "there is evidence that all-female classes have a direct effect on pass rates and course scores as predicted by the reduction of stereotype threat" (p. 18).
• Booth and Nolen also conducted two studies in 2009 exploring whether gender differences in risk attitudes were influenced by the environment or largely inherent. They found that: "The bulk of our evidence suggests that a girl's environment plays an important role in explaining why she chooses not to compete. We have looked at the choices made by girls from single-sex and co-ed schools and found that there are robust differences in their behaviour: girls from single-sex schools behave more competitively than do coeducational girls" (Booth & Nolan, 2009b, p. 20).
• A 2011 study by Titze, Jansen and Heil compared accuracy in a test of mental rotation in girls from single-sex and coeducational schools. In previous research, this test has consistently been performed better by males than females. Titze et al.'s study found that girls at single-sex schools outperformed girls at co-educational schools in the mental rotation test. These results add to the body of evidence that single-sex educated girls are less "gender-stereotyped" in their development, than girls at coeducational schools (p. 5).
• In a report prepared for the US National Coalition of Girls' Schools (NCGS) analysing the 2013 High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE) conducted by Indiana University — which surveyed 2013 girls attending NCGS member schools, 5210 girls from co-ed independent schools and 5741 girls from co-ed public schools — it was found that 95.5% of girls at NCGS schools agreed or strongly agreed that they actively participated in classroom discussions. Of these, 41.5% of girls at NCGS schools strongly agreed that they were engaged by teachers in classroom discussions, in contrast to 33.3% of girls in co-ed independent schools and 12.9% of girls in co-ed public schools (Holmgren, 2014, p. 4).
'Gender atypical' subject selection: Statistics
• In 2010, Tully and Jacobs noted that 22% of female students in New South Wales attended a single-sex school, but 40% of female engineering students at the University of Technology in Sydney were from girls' secondary schools (pp. 458, 463). They concluded that the "culture of a single gender school may provide a unique socialisation process, which allows a young woman the freedom to reach beyond stereotypical career expectations" (p. 463).
• In 2012, girls from GSA schools in the UK constituted only 5% of girls taking A-levels but comprised 15.9% of girls doing Further Maths, 13.4% of girls doing Physics and 8.9% of girls doing Chemistry. Furthermore, girls from GSA schools were awarded (Independent Schools Council, 2013):
- 25.9% of all Physics A* grades awarded to girls,
- 24.7% of all Further Maths A* grades awarded to girls, and
- 19.8% of all Chemistry A* grades awarded to girls.
• In 2012 Britain's Institute of Physics found that "girls were almost two and a half times more likely to go on to do A-level physics if they came from a girls' school rather than a co-ed school" (p. 7).
'Gender atypical' subject selection: Research
• A study of the status of women in science in Australia noted that "girls perform better in science in single-sex schools" (Bell et al., 2009, p. 36).
• In their study of female engineering students at a Sydney university, Tully and Jacobs concluded that: " Single gender classes may provide a learning environment where the female voice is not marginalised. The personal attributes of the teachers, most notably their encouragement, care and availability, appeared to motivate these female students from single gender schools to excel" (2010, p. 464).
• Alice Sullivan, a British academic, found that: "Girls at single-sex schools were less likely to see themselves as 'below average' in maths and science". She also noted that single-sex schooling "generally promoted a gender-atypical self-concept" (2009, p. 281).
• More recently, Sullivan, Joshi and Leonard found that "single-sex schools were associated with attainment in gender atypical subject areas for both boys and girls… [and] women who had attended single-sex schools were more likely than coeducated women to gain their highest qualification by age 33 in a male-dominated field" (2010, p. 25). This "confirms the view that single sex environments can actually reduce the tendency of students to behave according to gender-typical stereotypes or norms" (p. 26).
• "A single-sex environment may make it less likely that students will perceive particular academic subjects as being 'for' a particular sex. While in a coeducational school, a girl taking physics, for example, would have found herself in a minority in the class, this would not apply in a single-sex environment" (Sullivan, Joshi & Leonard, 2010, p. 27).
• Schneeweis and Zweimüller (2012) showed that when a female studies in a class with a higher proportion of females, she is more likely to choose to study in a technical school later on.
Academic results: Statistics and research
Girls' schools in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US consistently 'punch well above their weight' when it comes to academic excellence. In Australia, where girls' schools comprise about 7% of secondary schools, 25.6% of Australian Student Prizes awarded in 2013 to the nation's top 500 students went to girls from girls' schools. In New Zealand, girls from girls' schools were awarded 51.1% of the country's Top Subject Scholarship Awards in 2013, and in 2012 the only girl (so far) to win the Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence, recognising New Zealand's highest performing student, attended a girls' school. In the UK, where 5.2% of girls taking A-levels in 2012 attended schools belonging to the Girls' Schools Association, 21.6% received an A* grade, compared to 7.9% of girls receiving A* grades nationally. In the US, 98.7% of girls attending girls' schools expect to earn a four-year, graduate or professional degree and 78.9% of girls report that most of their classes challenge them to their full potential, as compared to 44.3% of girls in co-ed public schools. (See below for further details and sources.)
• Analysis of Year 7 and Year 9 numeracy and literacy (NAPLAN) data conducted on behalf of The Australian newspaper shows that 46 of Australia's 'Top 100 Secondary Schools' in 2013 were girls' schools (Your School Top 100 Rankings Tables, 2014), despite these 46 schools only constituting 1.7% of Australia's 2700 secondary schools and, overall, Australia's 190 girls' schools only comprising about 7% of all Australian secondary schools (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2014).
• In 2013, girls from girls' schools received 25.6% of Australian Student Prizes awarded to the nation's top 500 students (Australia, Department of Education, 2014a, 2014b):
- In South Australia, 15 of the 40 prizes (37.5%) went to girls from girls' schools.
- In NSW, 43 of the 149 prizes (28.8%) went to girls from girls' schools.
- In Victoria, 31 of the 123 prizes (25.2%) went to girls from girls' schools.
- In Western Australia, 13 of the 52 prizes (25.0%) went to girls from girls' schools.
- In Queensland, 25 of the 111 prizes (22.5%) went to girls from girls' schools.
- In the ACT, 1 of the 10 prizes (10.0%) went to a girl from a girls' school.
- Students in Tasmania and the Northern Territory each received 10 Australian Student Prizes, but no Tasmanian recipients attended a girls' school and there are no girls' schools in the Northern Territory.
• A report prepared by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in 2008 demonstrated that girls in Australian Alliance member schools achieved high tertiary entrance scores (ACER, 2008):
- In Victoria, 36% of tertiary entrance scores (ENTERs) were 90 or more in Alliance schools and girls attending Victorian Alliance member schools produced almost three times the proportion of very high (40+) Study Scores than girls at non-member schools (p. 23).
- In South Australia, 52% of girls at Alliance member schools gained university entrance scores of 90 and above (p. 23).
- In NSW, girls in Alliance member schools exceeded the state mean in seven subjects chosen for analysis: English, Mathematics, Business Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Modern History. The highest performing member schools were more than 10 points above the state mean in all subjects (p. 16).
- In New Zealand the rate of achievement of outstanding scholarships in Alliance member schools was almost three times the national average (pp. 12-13).
New Zealand
• In New Zealand, similarly outstanding results have been achieved (New Zealand Qualifications Authority, 2014):
- Girls from girls' schools were awarded 39.4% of the country's Top Subject Scholarship Awards in 2012 and 51.1% of Top Subject awards in 2013.
- In 2013, the only girl to receive a Premier Award, placing her in the nation's top ten students, was from a girls' school.
- In 2012, the only girl (so far) to win the Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence, recognising New Zealand's highest performing student, attended a girls' school.
• ACER's 2008 report also demonstrated that:
- the rate of achievement of outstanding scholarships in New Zealand Alliance member schools was almost three times the national average (pp. 12-13).
United Kingdom
• In 2012, there were 7,500 girls taking A-levels at schools belonging to the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) in the UK, comprising just 5.2% of all girls taking A-levels nationally. Research conducted by Rudolf Eliott Lockhart showed that in 2012 (Independent Schools Council, 2013):
- Girls at GSA schools achieved a "disproportionately large share of the top grades in Sciences, Maths and Languages" and were "propping up these key subjects nationally".
- Overall, across all subjects, 21.6% of GSA entries received an A* grade, compared to only 7.9% of girls receiving A* grades nationally.
- In French, girls from GSA schools were awarded 31.7% of A* grades awarded to girls.
- In Chemistry, Physics and Further Maths, they were awarded between 19.8% and 25.9% of A* grades going to girls.
United States
• The 2014 report prepared for the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (NCGS) found that girls at NCGS schools have "higher aspirations", "greater motivation" and are "challenged to achieve more than their female peers" at co-ed independent and public schools (Holmgren, 2014, pp. 2-3). In particular:
- 98.7% of girls attending girls' schools belonging to the NCGS expect to earn a four-year, graduate or professional degree (p. 2).
- 78.9% of girls at NCGS schools report that most of their classes challenge them to their full potential, as compared to 72.3% in co-ed independent schools and 44.3% girls in co-ed public schools (p. 3).
- 97.9% of girls at NCGS schools stated that their school emphasised understanding information and ideas in their classes, as opposed to rote learning (p. 3), and 95.8% believe their school contributed to their ability to think critically, compared to 84.5% and 77.6% in co-ed public schools (p. 7).
University, careers and leadership
• In her book Pink brain, blue brain, Lise Eliot wrote that single-sex schools "automatically expand the leadership opportunities available to both boys and girls, and they may increase the odds that each sex will enter non-traditional disciplines" (2009, p. 311).
• A New Zealand study found that "the likelihood of gaining university entrance qualifications … increased in girls' only schools" (Shulruf, Hattie & Tumen, 2008, p. 627).
• An American study exploring the effects of attending a girls' high school on labour market outcomes found that women who attended single-sex schools " earn a 19.7% higher wage than women who attended coeducational high schools" (Billger, 2007, p. 166). Billger concluded that there was a "substantial" economic return for women who attended single-sex schools (p. 181).
• Linda Sax also found many post-school benefits when female graduates of single-sex high schools were surveyed: "all-girls schools—whether independent or Catholic-affiliated—appear to produce graduates who enter college more academically and politically engaged, as well as more confident in their mathematical and computer skills, than women from equivalent backgrounds who attend coeducational schools. Single-sex graduates are also more likely to begin college aspiring to become engineers" (2009, pp. 61-62).
Social and emotional benefits
• A study of single-sex public schools prepared for the US Department of Education found that there are many social and emotional benefits for girls who attend single-sex schools. Researchers using observational techniques found that: "Site visitors observed more positive academic and behavioral interactions between teachers and students in the single-sex schools than in the comparison coed [sic] schools" (Riordan et al., 2008, p. x).
•In the same study, researchers systematically reviewed the literature on single-sex education and concluded that: "Overall there were more social-emotional outcomes favoring single-sex schools" (Riordan et al., 2008, p. xi).
•Another American study also found a "positive impact of single-sex schooling on the academic, attitudinal, and social achievement levels of students, especially female students" (Morrell, 2009, p. 194).
• More recently, a 2014 study found that 97.0% of girls attending NCGS schools in the US felt safe at their schools. Of these, 69.4% strongly agreed that they felt safe, compared to 55.1% of girls at co-ed independent schools and just 17.1% of girls at co-ed public schools. In addition, 88.6% of girls at NCGS schools reported feeling comfortable "being themselves" at their school. Of these 43.7% strongly agreed that they felt comfortable. In contrast, 35.4% of girls at co-ed independent and 18.3% of girls at co-ed public schools strongly agreed that they felt comfortable at their school (Holmgren, 2014, p. 6).
• The NCGS report also stated that: "Students attending all-girl schools experience higher levels of support from their classmates, teachers, and administrators than do their female peers at coeducational [sic] public schools", with 89.9% feeling supported by other students and 94.6% feeling supported by their teachers. In co-ed public schools, 73.1% felt supported by other students and 84.1% felt supported by their teachers (p 8).
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MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Leading early-stage venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and its network partners DFJ Frontier and Zone Ventures hosted the fourth annual DFJ Venture Challenge in Menlo Park on Wednesday. With a grand prize of $250,000 in seed stage funding, the competition is believed to be the largest winner-take-all business plan competition for university students. During the morning session, 16 teams from 12 universities on the West Coast presented business plans to a panel of 10 judges, comprised of venture capitalists from the DFJ Network. Six teams were selected as finalists and presented extended versions of their business plans and answered further questions from the judges in a second round of competition in the afternoon.
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An anti-Israeli ad campaign is scheduled to appear on buses starting Dec. 27. A group called the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign is behind the ads. It's the two-year anniversary of Israeli military action in Gaza, aimed at stopping rocket attacks on Israeli citizens.
Metro is considering changing its ad policies for non-commercial groups, but says it could be costly and tricky. But if they ban the anti-Israel ads, they might have to ban ads for causes that have public appeal, such as the Boys and Girls Club, Puget Sound Blood Center and United Way.
The American Civil Liberties Unions is urging Metro to run the ads, saying they may offend people but they should be protected under the First Amendment.
A year ago religious groups were in an uproar when Metro ran an atheist ad reading Yes, Virginia, there is no God. Earlier this year some citizens called for banning the Avenue Q ad because a puppet had cleavage. Metro rejected an ad for the video game Left 4 Dead because it has a mature rating.
News of the ads has led to tighter security at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle. Four years ago, a mentally ill man claiming to be angry at Israel broke into the building, shot and killed a woman and shot five others. The fear is an ad campaign could fuel more violence.
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Lionhead Studios today relaunched a Fable-centric forum on their website, hinting at a possible Fable announcement soon to come.
"Have you been longing for a place to hang out with like-minded Fable fans?" reads a welcome post on the forums. "A place to share your knowledge and passion for the series? A place where those in pursuit of poultry are never frowned upon and a realm where a bout of flatulence won't draw disapproving glares?"
"Join fans from across the globe to discuss all things Fable. From the latest news & announcements to guides, walkthroughs, and fan content. Wherever your interests lie, you're bound to find the perfect bunch of people to discuss them with."
Two things hint at the possibility of a Fable-related announcement on the horizon: for one, the fact that these Fable forums were even relaunched—especially a week before E3. Fable III is over two years old now—it hit shelves October 2010. And then, of course, there's mention of "news & announcements."
Perhaps a fourth Fable game is among Microsoft's 15 Xbox One exclusives? Guess we'll find out in a week's time.
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Insurance can be a costly necessity and everyone has different needs. Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance understands and provides the individualized service necessary for today's world.
The Bell County Kentucky Farm Bureau Agency was founded in 1952. Current agency manager Danny Luttrell joined in 1988, followed by agents Bob Dixon in 1996 and Joe Stamper in 2003.
Through several moves, the insurance agency settled in its current Middlesboro location in 1995.
Tough economic times are apparent, even in the insurance industry. Luttrell notices a decline in the economy by the increase in smaller claims being filed.
"In a more depressed economy area, sometimes people will turn in claims where they maybe wouldn't have. Most insurance companies now have gone to higher deductibles to deter those smaller claims," said Luttrell.
Luttrell attributes the continued success of Kentucky Farm Bureau in the area to his office staff and the family "We're blessed to have longtime employees here that really know our people and have relationships with the customers. These ladies know people by name and it's still a real small town feel," said Luttrell.
Kentucky Farm Bureau continues to show its dedication to the local community through sponsorship of the Ray Reed Bell County Farm Bureau Scholarship which gives a $1,000 scholarship to a few deserving seniors at Middlesboro, Bell County and Pineville high schools every spring.
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OSLO, Norway — For fostering peace on a continent ravaged by war, the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Norwegian prize jury urged all Europeans to remember those efforts as they tackle the debt crisis tearing at the 27-nation bloc.
The award was hailed at EU headquarters in Brussels and by pro-EU government leaders across the continent but derided by "euroskeptics" who consider the EU an elitist superstate that strips citizens of their rights and erodes national identities.
The announcement was met with mixed reactions in debt-ridden countries like Spain and Greece, where many blame Germany and other northern EU neighbors for the painful austerity measures like higher taxes and job cuts they have endured to salvage their floundering economies.
"The peace prize?" said Giorgos Dertilis, who works at an insurance company in Athens. "The way things are going, what will happen in the immediate future? Peace is the one thing we might not have."
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the EU for promoting "peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights" in Europe for six decades following the tremendous devastation of World War II.
The bloc is now made up of 500 million people in 27 nations, with other nations lined up, waiting to join.
But European unity is being threatened by the debt crisis that has stirred deep tensions between north and south.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Nobel committee had made a "wonderful decision," and linked it to attempts to salvage the euro even though the judges didn't mention those efforts specifically.
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Envisioning a Safer Queens Boulevard Where People Want to Walk
While safety improvements have saved lives on Queens Boulevard since the late 1990s, when it was routine for more than a dozen people to be killed in a single year, the "Boulevard of Death" remains one of New York City's most dangerous streets. As DOT prepares to launch a comprehensive safety overhaul in the coming months, advocates have published some ideas about how to redesign Queens Boulevard for the Vision Zero era.
Architect John Massengale worked with photo-rendering firm Urban Advantage to produce a new vision of Queens Boulevard, published in the fall issue of Transportation Alternatives' Reclaim magazine. Massengale explains the process:
The images do not reflect the standard DOT approach of focusing primarily on the intersections. Traffic engineers do that because the intersections are where traffic comes into conflict, with itself and with pedestrians and cyclists. Instead, the vision begins with making places where people want to be, and that naturally changes the emphasis to the space between the intersections.
Queens Boulevard cuts a 200-foot wide slice across Queens and remains a deadly street, ranked second in the borough for pedestrian deaths last year by Tri-State Transportation Campaign [PDF]. It used to be worse: Over the years, DOT has responded to advocacy for a safer Queens Boulevard with proposals like wider pedestrian islands at crosswalks, neckdowns, more crossing time, and turn restrictions, which have reduced fatalities significantly. While DOT added some mid-block changes like new on-street parking or pedestrian fences, intersections remained the focus of safety interventions, which didn't necessarily enhance the pedestrian environment.
To transform Queens Boulevard for the Vision Zero era, Massengale focused on turning a 60-foot right of way on each side of the street into "a place where pedestrians are comfortable." This, he says, will set the tone for drivers as they approach intersections. Massengale recommends wider, planted medians with narrower, slower general traffic lanes and protected bike lanes on the service roads.


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Why to watch: Resigned to the fact that it'll go another year without a Rose Bowl invitation, Cal comes out of the break wondering where the 2009 season will take it. Before the bye, the Bears were exposed as Pac-10 frauds, losing to Oregon and USC by a combined score of 72-6. Jeff Tedford has worked his players extra hard over the last week, sending a signal that there's still plenty to play for over the next two months. UCLA, too, has dropped the last two games, showing some warts following a momentum-building 3-0 start. Even though the Bruins got QB Kevin Prince back from a broken jaw a week ago, it mattered little in a 24-10 home loss to Oregon. There'll be an unmistakable sense of urgency in Pasadena as both schools look to avoid a three-game losing streak.
Why Cal might win: While literally nothing went right for the Bears over the last two games, at least they won't have to contend with much skill position talent for a change. UCLA has the Pac-10's most impotent offense this side of Pullman. Averaging just 17 points over the last four games, the Bruins have an unproven quarterback and a non-existent running game. This will be a chance for Cal to flex its muscles on defense, getting after Prince with ends Tyson Alualu and Cameron Jordan, and linebackers Mike Mohamed and Mychal Kendricks. A mediocre set of UCLA receivers will struggle shaking loose from corners Darian Hagan and Syd'Quan Thompson.
Why UCLA might win: Week-in and week-out, the Bruins fortunes will rest on the play of the defense, which is championship caliber if it got a little more support. Cal hasn't reached the end zone in more than two games, largely due to the inconsistent play of QB Kevin Riley. Getting back on track won't be easy with DT Brian Price plowing through the middle of the line and CB Alterraun Verner taking the Bears' best receiver out of the equation. UCLA leads the Pac-10 in pass defense, and has yet to allow more than 24 points in a game.
Who to watch: In stark contrast to his blazing start, Cal RB Jahvid Best has disappeared the last two games. It really wasn't his fault. Without the threat of the passing game, defenses have been able to load up on stopping one of the most dangerous playmakers in the country. One thing in Best's favor is that he may not be hunted down by top UCLA LB Reggie Carter, who has a left knee sprain.
What will happen: While you pretty much know what you're going to get from UCLA, it's anyone's guess what Cal brings to the Rose Bowl. The Bears can't be as bad as they played in the two losses leading up to the bye week. They'll find a way to regroup, springing Best for a couple of plays of at least 25 yards. It won't take much to outscore a Bruin team facing serious problems on offense.
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Stanford (4-2) at Arizona (3-2),6:00 EST, Saturday, October 17
Why to watch: Both Stanford and Arizona enter this week's game in Tucson needing to do a psyche check. The Cardinal had its three-game winning streak snapped in Corvallis, losing far worse than the 38-28 indicated. This is still a young program, with a lot to prove, so bouncing back quickly is an immediate priority for Jim Harbaugh and his staff. The Wildcats seemingly had its game with Washington in hand with four minutes left when the bottom fell out. They allowed the Huskies to score 15 points in the waning moments, including a one-a-million hacky sack deflection off the foot of Delashaun Dean and into the arms of Mason Foster, who returned it for a game-winning score. And just like that, Arizona went from unbeaten in Pac-10 play to must-win in the league race.
Why Stanford might win: Can Arizona stop a power running team that'll challenge its modest size and girth on the inside? It's going to find out. Harbaugh has brought redshirt freshman QB Andrew Luck along slowly, putting the offense in the hands of 235-pound RB Toby Gerhart. He's responded with 746 yards and five touchdowns, wearing down opposing defenses. If Luck catches the 'Cats cheating up, he has the ability to pick it up, and burn the defense downfield with burner Chris Owusu, an exciting homerun hitter.
Why Arizona might win: When faced with a balanced offense, Stanford wilted at the feet of Oregon State, allowing 463 yards and five touchdowns. It's a vulnerable defense that has begun to spring leaks. The Wildcats are capable of opening the flood gates with its own run-pass mix. Buoyed by an offensive line that's played well all year, Arizona can hit the Cardinal with Nic Grigsby and Greg Nwoko on the ground and QB Nick Foles through the air. Foles has thrown for 638 yards in his first two starts, spreading the ball around to a half-dozen receivers.
Who to watch: Even without top pass rusher Brooks Reed the last few weeks, the Arizona D has played well throughout the first half of the season. A lot of the credit belongs to cornerbacks Trevin Wade and Devin Ross, who form one of the best tandems in the conference. Wade already has four interceptions, and will likely be in charge of keeping Owusu from streaking down the seam unabated.
What will happen: The future is bright on the Farm, but right now, Arizona is executing a little better than Stanford on both sides of the ball. The Wildcats have more options on offense and a couple more stoppers on defense, which will be the difference in a tight game Saturday evening. The Cardinal will rally late, but fall short on the road for the third straight time in 2009.
CFN Prediction: Arizona 33 … Stanford 24 ... Line: Arizona -6
Must See Rating: (Bored To Death 5 … My Monkey Baby 1) … 2.5
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Washington (3-3) at Arizona State (3-2),9:00 EST, Saturday, October 17
Why to watch: From the upset of USC to the overtime loss to Notre Dame, Washington has been all about the drama so far this fall. On Saturday night, the Huskies rallied from a 12-point deficit in the final four minutes to beat Arizona on a wacky, bang-bang defensive touchdown. While hardly a complete product in Steve Sarkisian's first year, the school is learning how to battle and win tight games, a departure from last year's 0-12 squad. Arizona State has to feel fortunate to be 3-2, maximizing a soft early schedule against the likes of Idaho State and Washington State. The Sun Devils defeated the Cougars, 27-14, last week, but were extremely sloppy in the process, an ominous note as the slate begins to get thorny.
Why Washington might win: The Sun Devil offense is dreadful, which will give a much-needed break to the Husky D. It's had problems running or throwing with any consistency, which has prompted Dennis Erickson to start using true freshman QB Brock Osweiler as a sparkplug alongside starter Danny Sullivan. U-Dub has far more punch on offense, beginning with QB Jake Locker and his young and improving supporting cast. The Huskies have put up at least 30 points in each of the last two games, a number the Devils are unlikely to reach.
Why Arizona State might win: The Sun Devil D continues to give hope to its fans every weekend. It's allowing just 221 yards and 15 points a game, and just got done ringing up 21 tackles for loss and a dozen sacks on Wazzu. The front seven signals major problems for a balky Washington offensive line. From Lawrence Guy and Saia Falahola up front to athletic linebackers Vontaze Burfict, Mike Nixon, and Brandon Magee, Arizona State is loaded with the kinds of playmakers who can alter the Husky offensive gameplan.
Who to watch: Not only did LB Mason Foster have the game-winning pick six last weekend, but he also racked up double-digit tackles for the second time in the last three games. He's one part of a talented trio of linebackers, including Donald Butler and E.J. Savannah, which ought to keep the Arizona State running game stuck in neutral. Dimitri Nance did run for 113 yards a week ago, a figure that isn't so impressive when Washington State is on the other sideline.
What will happen: Sarkisian has Washington believing, even if it's obvious that there are holes that might not be plugged until 2010. That swagger coupled with the Huskies' sizable edge at quarterback will help prop the program above the .500 mark. It'll again be a barnburner for Washington, which will use a Locker-led drive and an Erik Folk field goal in the final quarter to eke out the victory.
CFN Prediction: Washington 26 … Arizona State 23 ... Line: Arizona State -3
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I think somebodys going to get knocked out, said Jones, who is ranked No. 1 by the WBO and in line to fight Pacquiao next year if he (Jones) gets by Lujan. Its going to be a great war, but somebodys going to go down and stay down. Both of those guys got bigger, got stronger obviously Pacquiao got bigger and stronger. I believe its going to be a great fight for the fans.
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If Pacman doesnt stop him early then Marquez will win a split decision, said Jackson, whos in the midst of training Jones for the Dec. 3 fight against Lujan. Marquez has more skills than PacMan. PacMan jumps off his feet too much. In spite of his age, Marquez is a better all-round fighter who puts his punches together better. Marquez will box his way to a decision if it goes the distance.
The Mike Jones-Sebastian Lujan IBF eliminator is part of the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito II world championship telecast, which begins at 9 pm (EST)/6 pm (PT). It will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View and will be available to more than 292 million pay-per-view homes. The telecast will be available in HDTV for those who can receive HD. HBO Pay-Per-View, a division of Home Box Office, Inc., is the leading supplier of event programming to the pay-per-view industry.
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May 6 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable links to the Web.
Liverpool Sale
Tom Hicks, who owns Liverpool with George Gillett, says it may take two years to sell the club, according to an interview in the Sports Business Journal.
The Texan said they'd planned to sell as much as 50 percent of their holding on the stock market to pay down the debt at the club, but abandoned the plan in March 2008 when markets began to decline, the magazine said.
Bye to Ballack
Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack, whose contract expires at the end of the season, is set to join Schalke back in Germany, the Daily Star said.
Schalke boss Felix Magath said the player will be willing to accept lower wages to return to his home country, the newspaper added.
Chelsea Option
Chelsea has been offered Real Madrid's Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain for 34 million pounds ($51 million) if the London club can't sign Liverpool's Fernando Torres, the Daily Telegraph said.
The Blues have been in touch with Torres's agents in Spain, and Higuain, 22, may be another option for coach Carlo Ancelotti, the newspaper said.
Arsenal Defender
Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger may bid 10 million pounds for Senegalese center-back Pape Malickou Diakhate, who's now on loan at St. Etienne from Dynamo Kyiv, the Daily Mirror said.
The defender is worth about 10 million pounds, and the coach has been tracking the national team vice captain for two years, the newspaper said.
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Bayern Munich is targeting Manchester United midfielder Ji-Sung Park, the Daily Mail said.
The South Korean is valued at about 7 million pounds, and the German club may try to take advantage of United's rebuilding plans, the newspaper said.
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FICA imposes employment tax on the amount of "wages" paid to employees with respect to their employment. The definition of "wages" provided in FICA does not directly address SUB payments. SUB payments, however, are provided for under § 3402(o), which defines such payments by reference to a 5-part test and classifies them as payments "other than wages" for purposes of income tax withholding. In Rev. Rul. 90-72, 1990-72 C.B. 211, the IRS announced that it would not follow the definition in § 3402(o) for FICA purposes but would instead enforce the IRS's own 8-part test, derived from Rev. Rul. 56-249, 1956-1 C.B. 488, to determine whether the payments qualified as wages for FICA purposes. The payments in Quality Stores did not meet the 8-part test (because some benefits were paid in a lump sum, and because all benefits were not linked to the receipt of state unemployment compensation), but did meet the 5-part test of § 3402(o).
Quality Stores paid the FICA tax attributable to the payments made to its laid-off employees, and filed claims for refund. In an adversary proceeding, the Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan held that the payments were not subject to FICA. The district court affirmed. The Sixth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court.
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China's One Child Policy demands our outrage! We call upon the Obama Administration to take a strong and public position decrying this horrid abuse of human rights. Of course, it is increasingly hard to take the moral high ground when the same Obama Administration continues its own governmental policy of defending the killing of children in the womb, at any time and for any reason, in our own country - calling it a "reproductive right" and seeking to fund it under the Affordable Care Act.
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Keywords: China, One Child Policy, sex selection abortions, gendercide, Pan Chunyan, Deacon Keith Fournier
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - In June of this year, Jennifer Hartline of Catholic Online wrote a hard hitting article entitled Sex-Selection Abortion and China's Brutality: Shall We 'Gulp and Get Over It'? It commented upon the horrid forcible abortion of 23-yr-old pregnant mother Feng Jianmei of China. The brutal act finally drew the outrage of the International Press after a photo of the mother with her dead child next to her was published throughout the West over social media.
A courageous Chinese human rights named Chen Guangcheng recently moved into Greenwich Village in New York after a long and brutal ordeal which also drew international coverage. The Chinese regime reluctantly consented to him leaving the country after the coverage could not be stopped and threatened their public relations charade. Chen is the 40 year old Chinese citizen who taught himself the law and, as a human rights lawyer, courageously stood up against the evil, inhumane and barbaric forced abortion and sterilization policies of the nation he loves, the Peoples Republic of China.
In addition to the Chinese Communist regime's crimes against humanity, such as forced abortion and sterilization, they persecute Christians and other religious believers - with a special hatred directed against the Catholic Church. I regularly write about the persecution of faithful Catholics by the Communist Regime ruling mainland China. They have established a "Patriotic" Church which engages in illicit ordinations and persecutes Catholics loyal to Rome.
Sadly, because the Maoist Atheists ruling mainland China wear business suits, smile a lot, and hold commercial paper which represents a substantial amount of American I.O.U.'s, few politicians in either major political party have the courage to call them out for their egregious human rights abuses. With our growing economic reliance and dependence upon the Regime in China we sacrifice our fundamental obligation to defend fundamental human rights because we depend on the economic assistance of a repressive regime.
I will never forget the visit of Vice President Joe Biden to China in August of 2011. This Vice president who claims to be a practicing Catholic and presents himself as a champion of those who have no voice failed to oppose the brutality of forced abortions and sterilization. He remained silent before a brutal regime which subjects parents who have more than one child to fines, human rights abuses, beatings and imprisonment. He said during that visit that he would not "second guess" the murderous policy.
Congressman Chris Smith, a human rights hero and faithful Catholic made this statement in Congressional testimony in 2011, "Since 1979, brothers and sisters have been illegal in China as part of the barbaric one child per couple policy. And for 30 years, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has vigorously supported, funded, defended, promoted and even celebrated these massive crimes against humanity."
"The uncontested facts are these: Any Chinese, Tibetan, or Uyghur mother without a birth permit is put under coercive pressure to abort - if need be, she is physically forced to do so. All unwed moms are compelled to abort. In what can only be described as a search-and-destroy mission, disabled children are aborted as part of a nationwide eugenics program."
On Monday, July 9, 2012, Wang Zhicheng of Asia News, reported on another brutal incident involving forced abortion in an article entitled, Fujian, forced to abort by injection in seventh month. Family denounces Government. According to the report, the World Health Organization now estimates that 14 million forced abortions take place each year in China which are related to the one-child law, 25% of all abortions in the world.
"Pan Chunyan, 30, of Daji (Fujian) was pregnant with a baby of seven months. With her husband Wu Liangjie they already have two children: an 8 year old girl and a boy of three. Last March, a group of men of the Office for population control, traveled to Shishi (120 km from Daji), where Wu was working to threaten him with having violated the one-child law: or pay 45,300 Yuan ( about 5800 Euros) in fines or his wife was to undergo a forced abortion".
"Returning to the village, Wu paid 20 thousand Yuan. But a month after the funds were returned, and his wife was kidnapped and locked in a room with other pregnant women. At that point, the local government asked him to pay a fine of 55 thousand Yuan (more than 7 thousand Euros). Despite having paid two days later, more than 60 people with different cars, arrived at his house, seize his wife and took her to hospital where they administered an injection to procure the abortion."
"In an interview reported on the South China Morning Post, Wu said his wife "was on her knees pleading with them, but they did not listen." Two days later the woman gave birth to the fetus of seven months, "at the sight of the little body she was reduced to crying and screaming." Disgusted by this law and its use as a means of income for the bureaucrats and as a means of blackmail, Wu decided to publish his story on the internet and to denounce the local government in Daji. Since then he is hiding in Beijing with his wife, in a secret place. The local government ordered him to remove his story from the Internet or he in turn will be visited by thugs."
The treatment of children as commodities in China, products to be accumulated only with the permission of the Central Government, seems horribly unjust to most observers, and rightly so. However, at its root, is it that different than the current abortion culture of the West? In the West, it is not the Government which issues a permit, allowing a couple to conceive. Instead the so called abortion "right", created out of whole cloth by unelected Judges, is now enforced by the Police Power of the State.
This positive "law", which violates the Natural Law Right to Life of Every Child, 'allows' the parents of a child to secure the services of a medical professional to take her life in the womb for any reason, up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy, if she is not wanted. This can be done through any number of means from dismemberment, to suction or chemical weapons which are administered in utero. The brutality of these procedures is hidden behind the wall of the womb, once the safest place on earth.
China's One Child Policy demands our outrage! We call upon the Obama Administration to take a strong and public position decrying this horrid abuse of human rights. Of course, it is increasingly hard to take the moral high ground when the same Obama Administration continues its own governmental policy of defending the killing of children in the womb, at any time and for any reason, in our own country - calling it a "reproductive right" and seeking to fund the procedure as a medical service under the Affordable Care Act. God have mercy.
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