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This Forum provided an opportunity is create a synergy between all of these elements for systemic change and prosperity for Canada and other participating countries. According to Forum organizers, We are facing an Aboriginal education/workforce crisis, cultural diversity challenges in educational institutions and workplaces, a disconnect between the successful transition and integration of secondary, post secondary and the world of work, and a collision between supply and demand for the high rising skill requirements in the workforce.
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How is George described?
As a short, small, slim, working man:
"small and quick and dark of face" "restless eyes" "strong, sharp features" "strong hands" "slender arms" "thin bony nose"
How is Lennie described?
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What does Lennie do with the water that makes him proud of himself?
He creates ripples across the water
When Lennie goes out to get wood for a fire, what does he bring back that George takes away?
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For the first time since the death of his wife, actress Brittany Murphy, Simon Monjack was starting to sound hopeful about the future. Speaking to PEOPLE on May 14, the British businessman talked about a photography book he was planning about the ballet world. The book, he said, would join his passion for photography and Murphy's love of ballet. "It seems fitting to do it," he said. He also shared his plans for an upcoming trip to Europe with Brittany's mother, Sharon. "Of course I'll take her with me," he said. "I can't leave her."
Just nine days later Sharon found Monjack dead at age 40 in their Hollywood Hills home-in the same bedroom where Brittany died on Dec. 20 at age 32. That the two died five months apart, both so suddenly and prematurely, only deepened the air of tragedy and mystery that always seemed to surround them. Currently under investigation by the coroner's office, Monjack's death was reported as a possible heart attack by the firefighters who responded to Sharon's 911 call on May 23. "We're not sure if it is natural causes or a possible accident," says L.A. Coroner Assistant Chief Ed Winter, "maybe because of the prescription medication found there." (A full report is expected in several weeks, pending toxicology results.) Monjack's spokesman Roger Neal says Monjack-who had been planning a September gala for a foundation honoring Brittany-was taking prescription medications for heart problems and had been told he needed bypass surgery. "I said, 'You want to be healthy. Don't you?' " recalls Neal. "He said, 'Yes, but the bypass can wait. Once I get the gala done, I'm going to have the surgery.' "
Monjack was deeply affected by Brittany's death, but he "was 100 percent not suicidal," adds Neal, who met with Monjack and Sharon, 57, to make plans for the gala the day before Monjack's death. "He was excited and upbeat," says Neal. Sharon too was smiling. And yet, "you could still see the hurt in their faces and eyes over losing Brittany," says Neal. "Simon said, 'We're just getting over the shock. We're just now starting to mourn.'"
Sharon and Monjack, who wed Brittany in 2007, had leaned on each other closely in recent months-weathering grief and controversy together in the home they once shared with Brittany. "People say I was a Svengali, but I was a husband and didn't want her abused," Monjack told PEOPLE in March. Addressing criticism that he hadn't looked after Brittany's health-the coroner ruled her death was caused by pneumonia, anemia and multiple drug intoxication-Monjack said, "If I thought she was in danger, I'd have done something about it."
Several friends say Monjack himself clearly appeared to be unhealthy. He claimed to have suffered a heart attack aboard a plane shortly before Brittany's death; he also said he'd battled oral cancer and took anti-seizure medication.
With Monjack suddenly gone, Sharon Murphy is "in shock," says Neal, with close friends at her side. "I loved Simon like a son, and he loved me like a mom," she said in a statement to PEOPLE. "I've lost a son-in-law and a daughter, and I'm devastated."
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An At Home Gel Manicure??
I apologize in advance for such a wordy post that lacks photos.
Not really my style….
So if you saw my water marbling video, you might have noticed that my nails were untypically long. My nails are extremely soft and flexible making growing them out to anything more than a stub impossible. This also makes keeping any type of a polish last longer than a day or two pretty difficult. I like to do fun designs on my nails and so 8 times out of 10 my nails are just bare because it's not worth all the time to do my nails to have them chip a day later. I needed a way to be able to keep my designs on a little longer to make it worth my while BUT I didn't want to get acrylic nails put on at the nail salon. I find them way to damaging on my nails AND I wanted a thinner, more natural look.
I ended up purchasing the Cosmar Quik Nails Brush-On Gel Nail Kit from my local CVS for about $10. I apologize for being a bad blogger and not photographing everything that came in the kit (or the box for that matter). I pretty much ripped the box open like a kid on Christmas morning. I was ready to have fabulous nails!
The kit was actual pretty simple in theory. You glue the tips on (I purchased a separate glue because the glue that's included in these kits is usually shitty), file the tip down, apply a coat of the gel overlay and then apply the gel activator. I actually found it to be pretty simple just as the directions were. The most time consuming part is probably filing the tips into the shape you want it and then filing the tips so that it blends into your natural nail. The gel overlay itself is like trying to use thickened Seche Vite. Anyone who has ever used SV knows that it will get thick pretty quickly and becomes kind of difficult to work with. This is kind of what the gel overlay is like. It's not the most fun to work with but definitely doable. The gel activator is like a fresh bottle of SV. When you apply it to the gel overlay it levels everything out which is pretty awesome. My first application wasn't perfect but totally wearable.
Here it is one week later and my nails still look great. None of my nails are even close to loosening up or popping off. I removed my polish (using non-acetone remover) today and filed done the gel by my cuticles to make sure they blended in perfectly. They actually look better now than they did last week to be honest.
I adore the fact that they are strong, not as damaging to my nails and yet very thin and natural looking. They were also moderately easy to apply and I can see it getting easier each application. The only negative thing that I can see is that you can't wear this nail natural. You must paint them because you can see the seam between the tip and the natural nail no matter how much you file. It doesn't help that the tip is not your typical crescent moon shaped tip. This really doesn't bother me though because my original plan was to paint over them anyway. Here's a picture of my nails after a week of wear. You can see how the tips show through the gel overlay.
So at the end of the day, I totally would recommend this to somebody who is looking for the same things I was. I might try the Kiss Lightning Speed Nails kit. Apparently, it's a little more difficult to apply but longer lasting? Don't get me wrong I'm totally happy with this set but the blogger in me wants to compare the two kits.
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I should get something like this just to put on top of my nails so they will grow and forego the tips. My nails and issues sound just like yours!
Im going to try these!! I love nails some of the time and these sound so simple!!
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Weld County showed the strongest job and wage growth gains in Colorado in the second quarter of 2012, while hitting No. 5 in the nation in percentage of weekly wage growth.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday reported that second-quarter growth in employment and wages grew in 287 of 328 of the country's largest counties. From June 2011 to June 2012, Washington, Ore., recorded the highest average weekly wage growth of 8.5 percent.
Weld was the only Colorado county in the top 10 in wage growth, coming in at No. 9 with an average weekly wage growth of $47 from June 2011-June 2012. It came in at No. 5 in percentage of wage growth at 6.4 percent, compared to 1.3 percent growth across the country.
Weld's status is somewhat of a surprise and a relief to Shannon Jantz, branch manager of Apple One, 2914 67th Ave., which has been working with employer-clients for the past year to boost the bottom floor on wages.
"We've been making a push and getting clients to focus more on even $11 an hour," Jantz said in an interview Tuesday.
The philosophy has run counter to traditional northern Colorado insistence of keeping the wage floor at $10 an hour. But Jantz and her staff's appeal to employers to bring up wages to reduce attrition among their ranks is starting to ring a bell.
Happy employees stick around longer, which means less time focused on training new employees, she said.
"Toward the end of last year, we started talking to all clients, and a lot were not sure if they wanted to do that," Jantz said. "It was with them losing some good or almost losing good people that they decided maybe I should increase this and because of that increase, I could retain good people."
That's been to the benefit of employees, who have been able to negotiate wages for the jobs they want, Jantz said.
In average weekly wage growth, while Weld sat at the top of the state, only Larimer County (ranked No. 25 in the nation) could rival it with wage growth of 3.7 percent.
Job numbers were a different picture. While the county came in second in the state for job numbers growth, it didn't quite break the country's top 10. Yakima, Wash., registered the highest employment growth across the country at 8.2 percent.
Weld's employment did grow at 3.7 percent in that time, coming in just below Douglas County, which grew 4.2 percent in employment.
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Three years ago this month Comcast instituted bandwidth caps for all of their consumer customers. They did this because we uppity consumers got mad over their apparent throttling of speeds and the median use was 4-6 gigs a month. They still claim that to be true but is it?
Since then we do more HD video calls. More Netflix streaming. More Hulu Plus. More cloud storage for backup. More internet everything. But yet, our caps are still 250 gigs a month. It seems a lot but it isn't at all.
One hour of video Skype equals 1GB. One two hour HD movie on Netflix is 3.6GB. One hour of Hulu Plus is about 500MBs. If you do those things in one night they you've already hit Comcast's so called typical usage.
I don't know about you but I do most of those things daily and it sucks. They said they would increase it over time but I've seen no movement on that front. The caps are in place for anti–completive reason and they know it. It isn't about network management as the typical cost to the ISP is 2¢ per GIG. Which if you use your entire allotment is 5 dollars a month. I pay 50 bucks a month for access (and I have a special deal). That is a pretty large markup wouldn't you say?
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Cotto is clearly past prime for a couple of fights now
It was a good fight against trout.
I dont think the scorecards was quite accurate. But Trout was able to rally in the mid rounds to come up with the victory.
He did conduct himself a bit of a sore grape at the interview for my taste atleast.
Cotto is too small at 154 as this fight showed.
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It wasn't size that won the fight for Trout, he's just better than Cotto at everything.
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Cotto typically imposes his strength to wrestle the clinchers off of him..but Trout's height and overall size was simply too much for Cotto..
Cotto should get one more decent win maybe in PR and call it a career..
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Even if he was in his prime i think cotto would have lost
Tonight he fought a bigger, stronger, faster, taller fighter who was a southpaw in a division cotto was clearly too small for
Cotto never did well against southpaws, largely due to the fact that he has no right hand. Got badly stunned against Corley and got a gift stoppage, hurt by judah and resorted to low blows, knocked out by Pacquiao. Even the Quintana fight was competitive.
Cotto should return to WW, thats his natural weightclass.
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I freaking told you fools but NOOOOOOO Cotto kicks everyone's ass at 154 apart from Mayweather yadda yadda.
You know I still think Cotto is upper tier at 154 being passed prime or not.
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I don't think the weight class was the problem....Trout was rangier and would have fought the same type fight regardless of the weight....
I wonder whether as 140lb Cotto with the mentality he had then would have fared better.....?!?!?!?!
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LMAO..you're such a fraud bro...it's cool..he lost to a better man tonight..it is what it is..part of the sport..
you on the other hand are beyond a hater..you need a medic or a girlfriend..it's pathetic..
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Cotto's done. The big bear training camp didn't do **** to his stamina problems. He was done by the 9th round just like with mayweather.
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A great way to begin the New Year with family and friends. Honoring Gil and Carolyn Duran for their many years as dedicated members of Albuquerque's running community. This year, the Eggnog Jog will have a new course. Beginning close to the original start off of Guadalupe and 4th, the run will be on dirt following ditch paths to Anderson Field and returning to the finish. Official start is at the ditch intersection with Grecian Ave. NW. Casual, un-timed fun run with post race drawings and of course, Eggnog! Get fit in 2013. Share the day celebrating a new year with other runners and walkers.
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As you may know, burgers are one of my favorite foods, and I'm not alone in my love for a great cheese-topped patty. The Wall Street Journal printed an article this week about the popularity of burger joints with celebrity chefs. They mention my Marc Burger restaurants, and even highlight our homemade spicy ketchup!
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August 29, 2008, 11:24 AM
Does anyone know how many concealed carry liscenses are isuued in the US. Or how to find out state by state? thanks.
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August 29, 2008, 11:31 AM
Today - there are approximately 173240 Michigan CPL holders.
This is from the MCRGO (http://www.mcrgo.org/mcrgo/default.asp) wesite homepage.
August 29, 2008, 11:34 AM
Hard to say, since some states dont require CHL's.
August 29, 2008, 11:34 AM
Does anyone know about NY?
August 29, 2008, 12:06 PM
FL, TX, LA, and NC I have stats for somewhere but don't recall them from the top of my head.
Your not going to find any for NYS because its up to each county to devise policy for their applicants. NYS doesn't compile those numbers because it has nothing to do with the issue of the license.
August 29, 2008, 12:24 PM
Ask Mrs. Brady, she will throw out any number that suits her and will add that there are too many out there.
August 29, 2008, 12:51 PM
There are currently 516,638 people licensed by the state of Florida, including 53,871 non-resident licenses.
August 29, 2008, 12:52 PM
Texas has approx. 290,000 licensees as of 2007.
Year by years stats available here:
August 29, 2008, 12:57 PM
NC's stats:
August 29, 2008, 01:00 PM
Kansas has somewhere around 15,000 currently. Of course we haven't had CCL very long...
August 29, 2008, 01:21 PM
Washington State had 247,768 as of 6/18/08. This is per personal correspondence with the Department of Licensing.
August 29, 2008, 01:26 PM
Tack on 150,000 or so for VA.
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August 29, 2008, 01:28 PM
If ya ain't got a CCW (or CHL as we call it in Arkansas), ya ain't right.:D
August 29, 2008, 02:07 PM
"Florida has issued over 1.2 million permits."
"Distribution by age is generally proportionate to the overall state adult population. In Florida, 26% of permit-holders are in the 21–35 age group, 36% are 36–50, 27% are 51–65, and 11% are over age 65. The numbers of permit revocations are small. North Carolina reports only 0.2% of their 263,102 holders had their license revoked in the 10 years since they have adopted the law.[44]
Permit holders are a remarkably law-abiding subclass of the population. Florida, which has issued over 1,346,000 permits in twenty years, has revoked only 165 for a "crime after licensure involving a firearm," and fewer than 4200 permits for any reason. [45]"
Florida is a great state as long as you don't have to pay for home owners insurance. :)
August 29, 2008, 02:27 PM
"How many CCW's are there?"
Not enough!
August 29, 2008, 02:40 PM
I believe the nation-wide number is around 4 million. Of that total only about 40,000 are in my home state of California. San Diego county, where I live, only has about 1700 licenses for about 3,000,000 people!
August 29, 2008, 04:34 PM
Count off...
August 29, 2008, 04:36 PM
I'm #2
August 29, 2008, 04:39 PM
3 glorious carry permits! Bwa ha ha ha!
Member Dave Markowitz found this a few years back: http://blogostuff.blogspot.com/2004/12/percentage-of-adults-with-carry.html
August 29, 2008, 04:41 PM
My guess would be that issued NON-LEO CCW is in the range of 7-10 million.
It would average out to 150,000-200,000 per state.
August 29, 2008, 04:43 PM
I think 150-200k/state is low.
PA's got a pop of 12 million, and 7% of that is like 850k...
August 29, 2008, 04:44 PM
112,665 Total Valid Permits as of March 31,2008
According to the Utah BCI.
August 29, 2008, 04:45 PM
As of 12/07 there were 288,909 active licenses in Texas. The stats come out at the end of every year.
Texas makes pretty detailed demographics public too; breakdown by race, sex, age, location, etc.
It's averaging around 30,000 a year growth for the last several years.
I am 3 all by myself; Texas, Florida, and Connecticut :)
August 29, 2008, 04:49 PM
Arizona has a paltry 110271 as of August 1st.
August 29, 2008, 04:52 PM
Something like 6 in all of Hawaii, and that's looking back about 8-9 years AND assuming that all are still active...me, I'm waiting for my UT non-resident to come in the mail.
August 29, 2008, 04:52 PM
Arizona has a paltry 110271 as of August 1st.
Yeah but you lucky devil's don't really need them :)
August 29, 2008, 05:11 PM
This (http://blogostuff.blogspot.com/2004/12/percentage-of-adults-with-carry.html) might help...
September 12, 2008, 06:16 PM
How interesting.
Some states have far less licenses than I imagined: VA, UT, AZ, TX, LA, NC. UT and TX and VA are shockers!
I thought GA's 300k was lowly given the culture here but I have to reconsider seeing how few licenses are issued in other gun friendly states.
Somewhere on my laptop I have a figure for MI. While I can't quote it from memory, it is also much lower than I'd imagine. OTOH, WA surprised me with how many CCWs there are there.
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TROY - When First Lady Betty Ford was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1974, she broke new ground in taking her battle public.
Her courageous spirit in dealing with the cancer brought widespread public awareness of a health challenge that was a "closet disease," her son, Steve Ford, said during the annual McGraw Cancer Awareness Symposium Oct. 24 at the Crystal Room in Troy.
Betty Ford learned of her possible breast cancer within 30 days of Gerald Ford taking office following the resignation of Richard Nixon.
"There was very little awareness of it then," Ford said. "They (the president and first lady) purposely discussed were they going make it public or keep it private, as so many women did … I remember those images of them standing there holding hands, saying, 'We are going to take the public shame off of this disease.'"
At the time, the stigma and fear were "so great, women actually committed suicide than face breast cancer," he said. "It was a closet disease and here was a first lady going to go in for surgery."
Ford said his mother said she never felt the psychic wound, that feeling of "being mutilated" by surgery. Instead, he said, she felt much supported by her family and her husband.
There also was a huge public outpouring, Ford recalled. Betty Ford received 50,000 letters and cards from women around the world saying, "Thank you Mrs. Ford for helping take the shame off this disease," he said.
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He described her as open minded and someone who would speak her mind. "What she did, the awareness for cancer, just happened … to fall in her lap. She didn't think she did anything special," he said.
Steve Ford was a teen when his father became president. He left Washington at age 18, first to pursue a life as a cowboy. Not long later, he embarked on an acting career that has spanned movies and TV shows including the daytime drama "The Young and the Restless." Ford also tours as a motivational speaker, including visiting schools to talk with students about his own battle with alcoholism.
If his mother were alive today, Betty Ford would be "thrilled" at the acceptance and awareness of breast cancer.
"On the other side of it, there is almost a fear that there is a feeling like 'It must be all taken care of,' which it isn't," Ford said. "There is all of this awareness, but behind that awareness you have to remind people there is still work to be done."
The Cancer Awareness Symposium, in its 13th year, was sponsored by The UVMC Foundation and the UVMC Cancer Care Center and made possible by a grant from the McGraw Family Fund of The Troy Foundation and a UVMC Foundation grant. The symposium is named in honor of Troy residents Bill and Ruth McGraw. Between them, Bill and Ruth McGraw had cancer five times, but neither died from the disease.
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Laurabree Austin makes television shows about people's lives.
Austin, 25, works as one of the news reporters for NBC-4 and Fox-14 newscasts in Amarillo.
"That's why I love this job, because I'm out all day meeting people and getting to tell their story," Austin said.
Austin starts her day around 1:30 p.m. by reading the Amarillo Globe-News and catching up with what's going on in the world.
Then comes the story meeting where ideas are discussed and the bosses decide who will cover what for which newscast.
Ideas can come from breaking news events, local impact of national stories, press releases or just something a reporter thought of, she said.
Job Specs
Job: TV News Reporter
Education: Bachelor's degree
Starting Pay: $16,000 to $22,000 a year; sometimes allowances for makeup, hair and clothes
Once she gets her assignment, Austin said she begins making phone calls to get information, and sets up interviews and shots for footage.
After she finds out what photographer has been assigned to her story, it's out the door and running all day long, she said.
Every day Austin does a combination of taped interviews, stand ups, and live broadcasts, depending on the story she's covering.
During stand ups, Austin can do several takes of telling the facts of a story to get just the right one. In a live broadcast, there's only one take to get it right, she said.
"I get a big kick and thrill out of doing live news," Austin said.
However, she said her favorite stories are those that involve the plight of the common man.
"It's amazing how people invite you into their lives, and they continue to let you in," she said.
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Austin often must return to the station several times to write the scripts for her stories, and edit the video gathered for broadcast. Each newscast needs something different, she said.
Austin's day involves four deadlines for broadcasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., she said.
Deadlines are very tight, Austin said. A story 30 seconds early is still good work, 30 seconds late it's a tragedy, she said.
Some days involve both rushing back to log a story, then racing off to do a live remote for the next newscast, Austin said.
If a breaking news event happens, Austin might have to drop everything she's working on and rush out to do live coverage.
Through the time, she has the aid of her photographer.
"You do get to spend a lot of your day with someone. It's a team effort," she said.
People are at the center of what she does, she said.
"If part of my work offers people positive information, or enlightens people, or exposes them to something they may not have known, then I've had a good day and done my job," Austin said.
After the last broadcast is over, Austin said she still has to write her story for the Internet, and make sure the morning broadcast crew has the information they need from her story, she said.
"There's a lot that goes into what you see on TV. It's a whole day's work," Austin said.
But she doesn't mind.
"Every day is different," she said. "I think that's the thrill that makes you continue to keep doing it."
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Steelers/Broncos pregame stretch...
September 7, 2012 - Ray Eckenrode
Blogger's note: From here out, we'll be doing a pregame stretch blog and postgame wrapup blog for every Steelers game. We'll also be commenting extensively on the team all week on Twitter @15MinutesBlog. In keeping with our personal decision to lessen the importance we place upon college athletics in our life, there won't be any Penn State blogs this season but we'll tweet casually about the team, especially during games.
Pittsburgh Steelers (0-0) vs. Denver Broncos (0-0)
Sunday, 8:20 p.m., NBC
Weather – or not?: Partly cloudy, game time temperature of 75, 0 percent chance of rain. Those are near ideal conditions – if it weren't for that whole 5,280 feet above sea level thing.
Information from www.weather.com
Announcers: Al Michaels, Chris Collinsworth, Michelle Tafoya
Annoyance factor: Michaels remains unassailable and we remain a huge fan of Collinsworth, who works hard to get better every year and has the best total mix of personality and football knowledge going today. That likely means we'll be picking on Tafoya in our game blog.
Information from www.the506.com
Referee: Gerald Wright
Competence factor: OK, the replacement officials have been utterly terrible BUT with a few weeks to get acclimated to the speed of the game and more repetitions they'll improve to being just plain terrible like the regular officials. We hope the dispute is settled soon, but the sentiment that there are only 100 people in the world who can officiate NFL games is laughable.
Information from www.football-refs.com
The line: Denver -2
Smarts say: The Steelers opened here as 1-point underdogs, reflective of a game where there are questions about age and health on both sides. The line slid another point midweek when news broke of Larry Foote and James Harrison's uncertain status for Sunday. It will probably move again after Friday's practice, based on how much those two guys participate. The over/under of 44.5 means the smarts see something in the neighborhood of 23-21 Broncos.
Information from www.sportsbook.ag
Key matchup: Steelers blitz packages vs. Broncos protection schemes
Because: The Steelers fielded the league's top-ranked defense last year despite ranking in the bottom half in sacks (17th with 35, 15 behind the league leaders). It's highly doubtful they'll repeat that overall ranking in 2012 without improving their pressure and sack production. The matchup is triply amplified in this game because of Peyton Manning's health (with the exception of the 2005 playoff upset, Pittsburgh has never had much luck pressuring Manning in Indy) and the age/injury challenges for the black and gold defenders.
Quick hits:
+ We're not a doctor and we're not an NFL insider, but we've got pretty good spidey sense and the James Harrison "knee injury that won't heal" situation is making our spidey sense tingle in a Jack Lambert big toe sort of a way.
+ We love the NFL as much as anyone but our sports culture's total fascination with the league has resulted in media oversaturation to the nth power. Every network, cable channel, web site, blog and app has their own "expert" churning out their own "unique" content. It can get quite ridiculous as it was Thursday afternoon when we saw some "exclusive expert analysis" that suggested the Broncos (who have two of the best pass rushers in the game) just might try to pressure the Steelers (who have a much-maligned and once again injury-wracked offensive line). So now you know.
+ We told you last winter that the Steelers would let Mike Wallace test the RFA market, that no one would sign him, that he'd eventually sign a tender and play for Pittsburgh in 2012, that the Steelers would not offer him the Top 5 receiver money he's looking for, that they'd decide not to franchise Wallace for 2013 and that Wallace would sign an unrestricted free agent contract in the range of $50-$55 million somewhere else. We're halfway there and we've seen nothing to make us think the second half of the prediction isn't going to play out just as the first half already has.
The pick: There seems to be a fairly large gap between the national perception of where the Steelers are (trending downward) and the local perception (19-0, Stairway to Seven baby!). The reality, of course, is probably somewhere in between. But let's do a reality check on this game: Pittsburgh has two injured running backs, a No. 1 receive who started practicing Monday, an offensive line in flux, a questionable defensive line, a limping linebacker corps, a starting safety who won't play because of an illness, a new special teams coach and a brand-new punter. That's a pretty daunting list under any circumstances, let alone under the circumstances of going on the road to face an all-time great quarterback and two healthy and snarling pass-rush specialists. The only way we can see Pittsburgh winning this game is with a lights out performance from Ben Roethlisberger or some electric stuff from Chris Rainey… Broncos 27-21.


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Nov. 21 was one for the books - and the local authors who penned them.
Amarillo Friends of the Library and the Amarillo Public Library honored area writers who have published books within the past year at the annual Book and Author Dinner at the Amarillo Civic Center Grand Plaza.
Attendees mingled at an author autograph party before sitting down to the meal and to hear words from courtroom drama novelist William Bernhardt of Tulsa, Okla.
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You correctly pointed out in your May 24 column, "Bitter-net loses print forum," there is a glaring difference between reading a signed letter to the editor in The Muskegon Chronicle's As Readers See It section and reading an anonymous post to The Chronicle's Web site, www.mlive.com/muskegon.
Since the advent of the World Wide Web, people have become accustomed to posting any dribble they want while hiding behind a fictitious user name. There is no need to use correct spelling or proper punctuation because nobody knows who is writing these sometimes indecipherable Internet posts. Somehow, the written sentence has become almost inconsequential to the thought that is being put forward. Yet, without the proper use of words and punctuation, that very thought becomes lost in a jumbled, misspelled, run-on sentence.
Yes, everybody wants to remain anonymous. Yet we are supposed to read these posts and accept the writer's point of view.
I read and write posts to an industry-specific Web site on a daily basis. Unlike the vast majority of posters, my posts contain my full name and general location. It is only right to provide this information if I am going to critique the writing of others or provide information or opinion.
It's about time the World Wide Web grew up and became a mature medium. If each and every poster included his or her real name, that would be a small step for the poster and a giant step for responsible communication.


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Virtual Observatories (VOs) and data mining thereof is a powerful new method for discovery in astronomy. We describe the SkyDOT (Sky Database for Objects in the Time domain), a new Virtual Observatory, which is dedicated to the study of sky variability. We discuss the architecture of the database and the functionality of the user interface. The key feature of SkyDOT is the real time data stream provided by RAPTOR (RAPid Telescopes for Optical Response), the sky monitoring experiment designed and conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The site will also confederate a number of massive variability surveys and enable exploration of the time domain in astronomy. Currently, the public domain OGLE-II data set from difference image photometry of the Galactic bulge has been integrated into the database and is available for searching. The site will also utilize high level machine learning tools that will allow sophisticated mining of the archive.
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Host your birthday bash and welcome your guests with an over the hill banner. Hang them across the office cubicle, across the hallway, outside on the garage door or anywhere you need to make a big splash with a birthday message. Choose from a wide assortment of designs, colors, themes and add a personalized message and/or photo to create a unique party banner. Mix and match with over the hill party invitations to complete your party theme.
Celebrate the birthday bash in the office, at home, in the dorm room or at the park with a big birthday message splash that everyone will see with the over the hill banner. Mix and match an over the hill banner with other birthday party decorations such as birthday balloons and birthday props for a blowout party.


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After the year that they've had, the team behind CBS and Warner Bros. TV's "Two and a Half Men" are understandably skeptical about committing to a new star for the beleaguered hit comedy.
The Wall Street journal reports (via Vulture) that Ashton Kutcher, who officially stepped out as the Charlie Sheen replacement at CBS' May 19 upfront presentation, has only signed a one-year contract with the series.
It should be noted that CBS has only licensed the series for another season anyways, but if it were to go on for 10th or 11th season, "Men" is free to tap another actor to join stalwarts Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones.
This also leaves Kutcher free to amicably jump ship, should chose too — though we can't imagine why. He'll be bringing home a reported $20 million for the upcoming Season 9, over a likely 22- to 26-episode run. That cranks out to $750,000 for every episode and a few extra bonuses.


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Cross Cultural Communication
Describe your course. What will the students be studying and learning?
This course introduces the student to the challenges and opportunities of cross-cultural interactions. As we cover core principles of cultural differences and how those impact cross-cultural communication, in this course we will "traverse the vast world of cultures" while paying careful attention to today's real-world challenges and ethnic, racial and religious conflicts. Students will learn not only from reading materials and class discussions, but they will also have the opportunity to directly communicate - virtually - with students in the Muslim world. Through team projects and weekly class assignments, the students will in a highly interactive manner learn what it is like to communicate both globally and locally...
Why would a first-year student want to take this course? Discuss its uniqueness as part of the University College, your teaching style, and any special opportunities the students may have.
Perhaps the best way to address this question is to let my students who took this course last semester speak themselves, as reported by the Professor's PA after the semester-end debrief: "Students overwhelmingly felt that they broadened their philosophic horizons and learned valuable life lessons. Nearly every student nodded when one shared that they had become more open-minded and sensitive to others after taking this class, and many shared revelations on cultural identity, professed improved critical reading and reasoning skills, and some even stated that their philosophical school of thought had changed." Perhaps this testimony is the best way to relay the Outcomes of my teaching style and Contribution to UC's values and its intense "learning through living and working together" approach. Fits my own Dutch style very well!
What do you like best about teaching first-year students?
This is the most rewarding thing I have done during my professional life, which included travel to some 80 countries and leading a global business before I joined the AU faculty: students seem to appreciate my sincere attempt to combine theory with my very (!) practical life experiences, and doing so with a healthy dose of humor and through extensive class discussions. Seeing my students mature so quickly as we work together on very complex nowadays issues is a personal delight. AU even pays me for it!


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Lifetree Cafe' – "Only One Way to God?" on Oct. 8th from 6:30-7:30PM at Zion United Methodist Church in York. The program, titled "Only One Way to God? Can One Religion Really Have All the Answers?" features the filmed story of Valerie Winn, an American whose spiritual journey led her to a Chinese village where she encountered an underground church. Winn describes her encounters with various religions and how they shaped her. "I finally said, 'God, would you just show me if you're real?'" says Winn. Lifetree Café is free and open to the public. All are welcome! 717-843-5261


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Harrisburg police said a gunman held up a couple walking home with their three young children after visiting friends.
The man, who had a handgun, ran up behind the family and grabbed the woman's purse at North Second and Delaware streets and then ran off, police said.
No one was hurt and the purse contained only baby items, police said.
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By JIM PARKER
The Post and Courier
The Murphrees endured two market slumps since launching the Summit neighborhood off Parsons Road near Summerville 24 years ago.
The first time the community "went through a drought" was in 1992-93. It lasted about a year, says John Murphree, who with son Mike Murphree developed Summit.
From that time on, sales would climb year after year as homeowners bought the large .68 to 1.1 acre lots and lined up custom builders who crafted swanky homes. The upscale village grew to about 120 residences as backers completed the first sales phase and all but two lots in the second phase.
The market was so strong that the Murphrees accumulated a waiting list of 200 people for the third and final building phase, expecting to offer 52 lots priced at $150,000 or more.
"It was really good," the father says, "until 2008."
In short order, the super-heated national housing market lost its spark. Buyers couldn't afford mortgage payments, home construction waned and prices sank.
Summit's expansion plans were put on indefinite hold. The slump carried into 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. Finally, toward the end of last year and into early 2013, the housing market stabilized. It now seems to be in recovery mode.
During those down years, the established Summit neighborhood stood up well. Throughout the community are sprawling brick- and clapboard-sided homes with interior appointments and grandiose perks such as, in one case, five garages. The last half dozen resales fetched prices from $425,000 to $650,000.
"The homeowners association and ARB have done a nice job," John Murphree says.
Meanwhile, the family venture, named 2nd South Properties and Construction Inc. because the Murphrees are neighbors on 2nd South Street in Summerville, prepared the remaining lots in the second phase and 52 spaces in the last section on 50 acres. They've readied the land with power grids and water and sewer lines. Roads are cleared. Lot prices are at $99,900, 35 percent below the peak.
With the market picking up, the partners are back in business selling lots. "We sold one this year," Murphree says. Still, he acknowledges that the lot turnover rate isn't expected to surge instantly. "This is a move-up," he says. "People have to sell their house."
The move-up market is showing signs of a turnaround, so the father-and-son partners expect they can sell properties at their current prices and up.
"We don't want to give it away," says John Murphree, who grew up on a farm near Lake Keowee in the Upstate and moved to Moncks Corner to work for the Soil Conservation Service 54 years ago. His wife is from the Charleston area — "one of the gals got me," he quipped — and he would move onto a job with the Army Corps of Engineers. From there, he got into real estate development. His early projects include Okatee near Goose Creek started in 1974, the upscale Newington neighborhood in Summerville two years later and Tramway in Berkeley County in 1979.
In 1989, Murphree and his son bought land that once included a soybean field and kicked off Summit.
Mike Murphree grew up in Dorchester County and played football at Summerville High for John McKissick-coached teams in the 1980s that went 41-1 and included future NFL running back Stanford Jennings — who would be in a Super Bowl with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Driving his 2006 Chevy Silverado pickup on the dirt roads of the final phase earlier this week, Mike Murphree nodded to his dad in the backseat on how he ended up as a developer.
"I grew up with this fella. I learned to operate the equipment," and stayed on the job. Today he is 2nd South's managing partner.
The father and son are hands off when it comes to the lots they sell in Summit, which is a mile from downtown Summerville and close to shopping centers off nearby Central Avenue. The neighborhood has a few standards. Homes must be at least 2,400 square feet, and the developers preserve as much of the forest as they can. That way, buyers "can pick specimen trees" for their yards, Mike Murphree says.
Homes are a minimum 30 feet apart and are at least 62 feet from the street. John Murphree says his farming background taught him to appreciate ample space.
"I think it's good to have one place where you don't have to shake hands (with your neighbors) through the windows," he says.
Lot buyers are responsible to clear their land and secure a custom builder. Contractors over the years include Schumacher Homes, Eisenhut Construction, Tyler Construction, G. Tupper III Construction and the Murphrees themselves.
Summit doesn't have community amenities, but Mike Murphree explained the real attraction is the acreage. "We have enough land on a lot for your own swimming pool."
The father and son plan to finish up the neighborhood the same way they launched it. "I told these people in 1992 that I started off with big lots; I'm committed this way," John Murphree says. "I could have cut them down; at 1/4 acre they would have sold like hotcakes."
Reach Jim Parker at 937-5542 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Many of the houses in the Dorchester County community are brick or have brick accents (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com/5/20/2013).×
Mike Murphree (left) and his father John Murphree are involved in the Summit neighborhood near the Woodlands in Summerville. The neighborhood will have about 150 homes when completed (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com/5/20/2013).×
The Summit neighborhood in its third phase, and the final 52 lots are for sale (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com/5/20/2013).×


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Friday and Saturday proved to be historic days for The Master's College track and baseball teams. Five Mustang track athletes earned eight Golden State Athletic Conference championship titles, while TMC baseball nabbed its first conference title in 10 years.
The Master's College track teams spent the last two days at Westmont College competing in the Golden State Athletic Conference Championships where five Mustang athletes earned eight different GSAC individual championship titles.
Karis Frankian made a strong showing in the 10,000 meter. Frankian placed first in the race at 37 minutes, 14.95 seconds. On top of surpassing the NAIA's "A" standard for the event (37:30.00), Frankian's time also established a new school record. Frankian also competed in the 5000. Frankian placed first with a 17:39.46.
Notably, Frankian's first-place performances made her the first Lady Mustang to ever be a two-time conference champion in track.
In the 1500, Hannah Kellerman placed first with a final time of 4:44.82.
Ayla Draper represented The Master's College in 100 hurdles by placing first with a 14.99.
John Gilbertson finished first in the 1500 finals in 3:49.79. In the 10,000, Gilbertson made his presence known by winning the event in 31:34.23. Gilbertson also placed first in the 5000 as he completed the race in 14:48.
Jason Logan was crowned the GSAC's high jump champion when he won his flight by clearing 2.10 meters (6-10 3/4 feet), matching his lifetime-best mark along the way. Logan previously matched that mark at the Pomona-Pitzer Invite on April 13.
With the GSAC Championships in the books, the Mustangs now set their sites on the NAIA Outdoor Championships. But before they make the trek to Marion, Ind., the 2013 Oxy Invite calls for another strong performance from the squad. The meet will take place on May 4 at Occidental College.
Capping off a historic weekend, The Master's College baseball team captured its first GSAC title in 10 years as part of a weekend sweep of Westmont. The No. 8 Mustangs won the opener 7-1 on Friday and then beat the Warriors 5-1 and 10-0 on Saturday.
The trio of victories, marking the club's second three-game sweep of the Warriors this season, improved the Mustangs to 37-15 overall, equaling a single-season mark for victories, and 25-11 in the GSAC where they finished three games ahead of second-place and 14th-ranked Concordia. In addition to winning their first conference championship since 2003, the Mustangs also secured the host role for the upcoming GSAC Tournament.
In Friday's series-opening win, senior ace A.J. Work went the distance for the first time in 2013, improving to 10-4 and tying him with Chris Beck (28, 1991-94) for the most wins in school history. He was backed by an offense that rapped out 11 hits and Joe Riddle and Ryan Shackelford who drove in two runs apiece.
With one of their most successful regular seasons behind them, the Mustangs now turn their attention to the conference tournament which starts Thursday on Reese Field. Concordia and San Diego Christian, the No. 2 and 3 seeds, respectively, open the tournament at 9:00 a.m., while the top-seeded Mustangs take to the diamond at noon against Arizona Christian.


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British Artillery 1914-19by Brian Delf Dale Clarke
In 1914 the artillery of Britain's 'Field Army' encompassed those weapons judged to have sufficient mobility to keep up with troops in the field. This book describes all major variants, from the 60-pdr guns of the heavy field batteries, perched somewhat uncomfortably on the cusp between field artillery and siege artillery, to the 2.75in. guns of the mountain batteries, almost toy-like in comparison. Between these two extremes lay the bulk of the artillery of the Field Army: the 13-pdr guns of the Royal Horse Artillery, and the 18-pdr guns and 4.5in. howitzers of the Royal Field Artillery batteries.
Pigeon River Country: A Michigan Forestby Franz Dale Clarke
The long awaited new edition of a classic offers memories, myths, and meanings of the largest contiguous piece of wild land in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. This updated edition explores more deeply why and how the outdoors moves and compels us. It's a book about mice who sing, elk who wear collars, deer who kiss, and birds who could dictate their compositions to Mozart. It's about the human species interacting in generous and sometimes misguided ways with the rest of life. It's about men trying to ripen pinecones into pineapples and women taking better aim with a revolver than expected. It's about poetry--from Mary Oliver, Lao Tzu, and Theodore Roethke--and seeing hawks dive in a night sky or feeling oil geologists shake the earth below. It's about finding fish dead in the river by the thousands and crouching behind a stump to watch beaver build a dwelling. While this book considers life beyond the boundaries of Pigeon River Country, it is steeped in the specifics of a place that lives mostly on its own, instead of human, terms. The Pigeon River Country is a remote northern forest, ecologically distinct from most of the United States. Laced with waterways, it has a storied past. Dale Clarke Franz has collected personal accounts from various people intrigued with the Pigeon River Country--including loggers, conservationists, mill workers, campers, even the young Ernest Hemingway, who said he loved the forest "better than anything in the world. " There are comprehensive discussions of the area's flora and fauna, guides to trails and camping sites, and photos showcasing the changing face of this hidden national treasure.
World War I Battlefield Artillery Tacticsby Dale Clarke
From the beginning of 'trench warfare' in winter 1914/15, artillery became the absolutely dominant arm in all the major armies for the rest of World War I, to a degree never seen before or since. The numbers and capabilities of the guns and ammunition available governed all the generals' battle plans; and the ways in which they were employed, and either succeeded or failed, decided the outcome of battles. The majority of the millions of casualties suffered during the war fell victim to artillery fire.The artillery war fell into three distinct phases along a four-year learning curve (with the necessary equipment and training for the second and third phases always lagging behind the tactical needs). The war began with mostly light, mobile artillery equipped and trained to support fast-moving infantry and cavalry by direct fire, mostly with air-bursting shrapnel shells.The entirely unexpected end of the first campaigns of manoeuvre as the armies bogged down in static trench warfare found both sides ill equipped and ill trained for what was in essence siege warfare on an industrial scale. This demanded more and heavier guns and high-explosive shells, and more complex skills for indirect fire - observation on the ground and in the air, locating targets (including enemy artillery), dropping the right kind of shells on them, the communications needed for co-ordinating the work of hugely increased numbers of guns, and getting many millions of shells up to them for week-long bombardments. These seldom worked as anticipated (classically, by failing to 'cut the wire' or to penetrate deep bunkers); so innovative officers on both sides worked to devise new tactics, with more versatile mixes of ammunition (e.g. gas shells, smoke shells, star shells and so on) and more imaginative ways of using them, such as box barrages and creeping barrages.Finally, in early 1918, the static slogging broke down into a renewed phase of manoeuvre warfare, made possible by sophisticated co-operation between artillery and infantry, plus the newly important air and mechanised forces. The lessons that were finally learned shaped the use of artillery worldwide for the rest of the 20th century.Fully illustrated with period photographs and specially drawn colour artwork and drawing upon the latest research, this engaging study explains the rapid development of artillery tactics and techniques during the conflict in which artillery played a pre-eminent role - World War I.
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|The G30R was based on a design conceived by Jonathan
E. Browning in 1930 (Below), which could
be adapted with equal ease to both civilian and military use. Although
it was generally believed that the Munich Agreement had forestalled the
possibility of war in Europe, the management of the Winchester company
wanted to have a design for a military rifle in hand should the need for
it arise. Consequently, from June 7. 1938, through May 1939, an extensive
series of tests were carried out using the original Browning samples (Plates
258 and 259) and those subsequently made by the company. During the testing
of the first sample, a number of problems were encountered in the design.
These were subsequently summarized in a report prepared
by William C. Roemer, on April 10, 1940, as follows:
In July 1939, the annular piston designed by Browning
was replaced by a more conventional version situated beneath the barrel
(Below), and most of the problems noted by Roemer were immediately corrected.
In recognition that its stocks of U.S. M1 rifles were insufficient to meet potential requirements, the United States Army asked for bids on a 65,000-unit contract in mid-September. The Winchester company, having gained valuable experience in the manufacture of that model due to the educational contract of earlier that year, was able to submit the lowest bid, and on Oct. 10, 1939 was awarded the contract.
The company also stepped up work on the G30R, producing a second revised sample in December. When subjected to a sand test, however, the bolt stuck fast in the wedge-shaped stopping surface located in the rear of the receiver, totally disabling the rifle'. In consequence of this, it was decided that it was necessary to redesign the rifle's lockwork.
The designer selected to perform this task was David Marsh
Williams, who the company had hired under a one-year contract on Julv 1.
1939. Williams immediately fitted a short stroke piston to the sample (below).
which corrected some of the operating problems. the design of Browning's
bolt, however, still made cycling erratic, so in late 1910, it was abandoned'.
Williams then substituted a bolt of his own configuration.
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end and an angled slot cut in the bolt's body. The purpose of this slot
was to receive a projection milled on the tip of the operating rod. When
the rod moved rearward under pressure front the piston, the projection
sliding in the bolt slot caused the bolt to rotate out of its locked position
before any rearward movement of the bolt could begin. The delay which thereby
occurred in the unlocking of the action allowed the pressure generated
by the combustion of the cartridge powder to dissipate before the action
began to cycle. This arrangement allowed the modified Browning-Williams
rifle to be chambered for any high-pressure cartridge by the simple expedient
of modifying the bolt slot length to adjust the bolt rotation to the point
that the bolt could be safely opened. The versatility of the Williams'
design was recognized by the company's management, and a series of samples
(below) were authorized for field trials and endurance tests in January
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Hello all,
You may already know about the following 2 grants rounds.
Some local organisations are either in the process of putting together, or are considering bids to create sustainability projects in Hackney.
http://www.greencommunitiescc.org.uk/ deadline 21st Jan, this is for a quick piece of work to be delivered by the end of March on local energy use
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_communities_living_sustainably.htm deadline 31st Jan, this is for £10k to develop a sustainable community project development plan, which if successful could lead to up to £1m for a project in Hackney over 5yrs
Short notice but today a few of us from Transition Hackney, Transition Stoke Newington and Transition Finsbury Park have arranged to meet this Weds evening to discuss these.
Whether your organisation has already submitted a bid, is thinking about doing so, or you as an individual have some time you could contribute to the process, you're very welcome to join us.
Venue will depend on how many people get in touch by the end of tomorrow (Tuesday), will either email you back late Tues or first thing Weds with address.
We'll probably meet again soon, so if you can't make Weds, drop me a line saying any evenings that are usually out for you and we'll bear these in mind in setting the date for any subsequent meeting.
All the best,
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On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, March 8, 2011, more than 1,000 supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to celebrate and kick off CARE's Annual Conference.[i] Each year, CARE bestows their "I Am Powerful" Award upon a person who has had a profound effect upon his or her community or the community of others. This year, CARE presented the award to Peninah Nthenya Musyimi, the founder of Safe Spaces, a sports-for-women's-rights program in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
Safe Spaces provides an excellent example of a gender-targeted program that applies sports as a strategy to advance women's rights. In addition to basketball, yoga, and dance classes, Safe Spaces' leaders (who are all women) hold weekly discussions where participants talk about issues affecting girls and young women who live in the slums. Since its creation in 2008, Safe Spaces has worked with over 500 girls.
Nthenya Musyimi founded Safe Spaces when she returned to the community where she grew up, after she had escaped the slums and had attended university on a basketball scholarship. As a child, she had witnessed the injustices women faced in the slums, where "all women's rights are violated and nobody cares."[ii] She realized she could be most effective as a role model, finding that girls who participate in the Safe Spaces program have an increased determination to escape from the slums.[iii]
Like Nthenya Musyimi, international development agencies, donors, governments, universities, and nonprofits are turning to sports as an innovative and effective way to engage young women in achieving their rights. Well-designed sports programs are an effective platform for learning and building skills, increasing knowledge, improving health and fitness, and ultimately yielding positive behavioral and health outcomes. In the United States, Title IX, approaching its 40th anniversary in 2012, has established a valuable precedent as a strategy for increasing women's access to sports and, as such, is yielding data on positive outcomes from women's participation. This essay, therefore, is not a discussion of whether girls should play sports—that is an unequivocal right—but rather an evaluation of how rights-based sports programs are effective in helping young women achieve their rights, and how additional resources within the women's rights and development sectors can be mobilized and targeted to improve outcomes for a woman and her community.
While the use of sports as a development tool and strategy to advance women's rights is growing, more funds must be targeted toward programs specifically geared toward women. In 2003, only 7.3 percent of total giving from foundations in the United States and 0.04 percent of total European Commission aid targeted "women and girls" programs and initiatives. Of the sixty-nine billion dollars distributed in 2003 in the category of "Official Development Assistance," approximately 2.5 billion, or 3.6 percent, had gender equality as part of the objective.[iv]
Investment in young women yields significant returns, especially when considering population statistics. Young women make up more than twenty-five percent of the population of Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa, and the total global population of girls between the ages of ten and twenty-four is predicted to hit its peak in the next decade.[v] But when it comes to the development of communities and nations, investments in women is about more than raw numbers. The Girl Effect, an initiative sponsored by the Nike Foundation in partnership with the NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation, and the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, reports, "an extra year of primary school boosts girls' eventual wages by ten to twenty percent. An extra year of secondary school: fifteen to twenty-five percent."[vi]
Women Win, founded in 2007, targets funding specifically to rights-based sports programs for girls and young women. In the past four years, Women Win has worked with 26 programs in 19 countries with direct contact with over 9,000 girls and young women. Through its work, Women Win is finding that the participation of girls and young women in high-quality, rights-based sports programs, such as Safe Spaces, decreases a young woman's tendency toward early pregnancy and marriage, and increases her chances of staying in school. Each additional year of schooling, and each year that childbirth or marriage is delayed, has a profound effect on a young woman's self-empowerment and earning potential—a high return on investments targeted toward women.
Women Win supports rights-based programming. Rights-based programs start with the basic premise that every person has rights, and works to help each participant learn about and realize her rights. A well-known example of a rights-based approach is Title IX in the United States. Prior to 1972, universities and schools were distributing federal funding inequitably by gender. Title IX states:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…[vii]
Although Title IX was not specifically directed at sports programs, Title IX's equitable funding mandate for all federally funded universities and schools made sports programming for girls and women immediately available. While many funding decisions rely upon extensive research to determine need, Title IX establishes a strong precedent for a funding decision based upon rights.
Rights-based programs, like those supported by Women Win, are designed to accomplish two major goals: first, to educate each participant about her rights; and, second, to help her build life skills that allow her to pursue the avenues necessary to realize her rights. For example, Safe Spaces' curriculum affirms for each participant that she has the right to realize economic empowerment. One way it does so is by emphasizing the importance of education in pursuing future employment. Musyimi's Safe Spaces program also includes team sports, such as basketball. Boxgirls, a rights-based sports program in Nairobi, engages participants through its curriculum on reproductive health, and teaches girls how to box.
These programs are based upon the belief that when a girl or young woman learns about the rights she is entitled to, is able to develop the skills necessary to pursue her rights, and has a support system to which she can turn when she experiences a violation of her rights, she is more likely to seek support and legal redress when those rights are violated. Knowing about her rights is not enough; each girl must also have the inner strength and the self-confidence to take action. Educating a girl about her rights provides her the opportunity to envision a different path, and the physical challenges and mentoring inherent to sports programs gives her the skills and support to follow it.
Because Title IX is a rights-based approach to human development, it is particularly relevant to the implementation of sports programming in countries where the realities of women's lives do not reflect the rights to which they are entitled. Many programs in emerging economies and "low-income" countries are designed around need; they identify something that is lacking either in the environment or in the people, and then work to fill that gap. A rights-based approach is just the opposite: it begins with the premise that every person has rights, and then educates and empowers an individual to achieve his or her rights. Rights-based programs are not dependent upon research for implementation. There is enough information available today to guide the scaling up of rights-based sports programs for girls and young women in countries across the globe.
Title IX provides evidence of the positive effect of rights-based programming upon a population whose rights had been denied. This has been particularly noticeable in regards to women and sports. After the passage of Title IX, the total number of girls playing high school sports increased from 300,000 in 1970 to almost three million today.[viii] Studies are starting to demonstrate the successes in education and careers achieved by women who grew up playing sports in the United States.[ix]
Women Win works with sports programs on the ground to provide quality programming that improves participants' knowledge and empowerment in three areas central to women's rights: 1) economic empowerment; 2) gender-based violence; and, 3) sexual and reproductive rights and health. These three areas are essential and interconnected. If a woman is to achieve economic independence, she must be free from oppression inflicted through gender-based violence. She also must be aware of her sexual and reproductive rights and health so she can choose to delay childbirth until completing her education. The ultimate goal is to help a young woman escape from poverty, achieve economic independence, and become a fully-developed human being. Early pregnancy, sexual abuse, rape, lack of access to financial institutions, and inability to own property are just a few of the injustices that limit a young woman's ability to achieve independence and contribute to her community. Women Win has selected these three focus areas because they represent the "triangle of oppression." When a young woman is able to exercise her rights in these three critical areas, she is more likely to realize a life free from poverty.
Economic Empowerment
In 2010, the Population Council initiated a baseline survey of adolescent women participating in the Goal project in India. Goal, a "sports plus" program implemented by the Naz Foundation with support from Standard Chartered Bank, targets adolescent girls aged twelve to twenty from low-income families in urban areas. Population Council researchers K.G. Santhya and Komal Saxena found that only three-fifths of girls surveyed knew how to count money correctly, barely half were aware of savings institutions, and just one-fourth could identify one or two services or products provided by banks.[x] Goal's program is offered weekly, over a period of six to ten months, and includes a mix of sports- and life-skills-education modules that cover topics including financial literacy, communication skills, and health and hygiene. It is part of an increasingly large cadre of high-quality sports programs in which financial literacy is being integrated into curricula to assist young women in achieving economic independence. Since its founding in 2006 as a pilot program in Delhi, Goal has reached more than 14,000 girls in India, Nigeria, and Jordan. Its goal is to reach an additional 25,000 girls by the end of 2011.
Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence is pervasive and crippling for young women in countries around the world, and adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable. According to a 2005 report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), almost fifty percent of sexual assaults are against girls under the age of fifteen.[xi]
Girls recognize the prevalence of violence in their communities. In 2010, Women Win worked with the Population Council to carry out a survey of 556 girls in four sports programs partnering with Women Win. They selected two programs in Kenya, one in Egypt, and one in Uganda. Seventy-six percent of girls surveyed believe that "violence against girls is a problem in their community."[xii] A girl living with violence is often unaware that she has a choice to escape from it; programs must often teach the most basic aspects of human and legal rights. For example, the Population Council survey of adolescent girls in India for the Goal program found that only sixty-seven percent knew that eighteen is the legal minimum age for females in India to marry, and only thirty-seven percent knew that twenty-one is the legal minimum age for males.[xiii]
For a woman to live a life free from gender-based violence, she must first be aware that she has the right to live a life free from crimes inflicted upon her solely because of gender. Gender-based violence refers to a cluster of crimes, including sexual violence, trafficking, and property expropriation. Gender-based violence is inflicted at the domestic, community, and state levels. Quality sports programs for women's rights work on each of these levels. Nthenya Musyimi integrates lessons about gender-based violence into the Safe Spaces program because of her own experience in the Mathare slums.
A girl's need for mentors and positive peer groups makes quality sports programs, such as Safe Spaces in Kenya and Empowering Women of Nepal, particularly valuable because girls who do not have a personal network are more vulnerable to abuse. These sports programs create safe spaces. Eighty-nine percent of girls surveyed in the Population Council's survey of the four Women Win programs reported that they felt safe where they play sports; eighty-three percent reported they had made at least five new friends through the programs; and eighty-nine percent reported they had a female mentor they could confide in.[xiv]
Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health
Adolescent girls are often forced to abandon schooling because of pregnancy. Every year, close to fourteen million adolescent girls give birth.[xv] The 2005 Adolescent Fact Sheet from UNFPA states: "Based on data from 56 countries, girls aged 15 to 19 from the poorest groups are three times more likely than their better-off peers to give birth in adolescence, and bear twice as many children."[xvi] Women Win is working with sports programs to deliver information to girls about their sexual and reproductive rights.
Some girls have much to learn. As part of its baseline study for Standard Chartered's Goal program, researchers asked survey respondents about their knowledge of sex and pregnancy. Only twenty-five percent of respondents knew that a woman can become pregnant the first time she engages in sexual intercourse; sixty percent knew that there are ways to avoid pregnancy; and only seventy-six percent knew that a woman cannot get pregnant from kissing or hugging.[xvii]
The Population Council study of girls' perspectives from four programs found that over half of the girls surveyed know that it is okay to play sports while menstruating. The ten percent who noted they were "unsure" and the third who reported they felt that it was "not good" show that the program still has more work to do around education in this area.[xviii] Program leaders continue to find that cultural practices around menstruation often interfere with a girl's ability to play while menstruating, so each program's response must be qualified by the context of the community while still providing solid facts for participants. Program leaders also provide culturally relevant information about ovulation and pregnancy. Gender-specific sports programming provides a safe space for girls to initiate conversation about concerns, especially those that are often considered taboo. Women Win supports the training of peers as program leaders to provide information and support that aligns with cultural norms.
Women Win brings an asset-building approach to the field by supporting and strengthening women's organizations and sports-for-development organizations to deliver conceptually sound and culturally relevant sports programs. Women Win's theory of change is built on the belief that adolescent girls and women benefit from, and are empowered by, sports and sports programs that build assets, provide access to resources, and develop agency and leadership.
For a sports program to effectively support a young woman in achieving a self-fulfilling, empowered life free from violence, it must combine two powerful pieces: 1) education about her rights (the building of assets) within a supportive community; and 2) the provision of access to resources allowing her to build personal agency and leadership. Women Win refers to these as the "triple A's."
Assets may be social, human, or athletic. Social assets include social networks, positive peer groups, and female mentors. Human assets include physical strength and fitness, mental and emotional health, self-confidence, and information and knowledge about gender-based violence, reproductive health, and economic empowerment. Sports skills are also assets, as participants must develop discipline and concentration to master a sport, and build one's sense of competence to compete. Women Win is tracking an emerging body of research suggesting that asset-building programs can result in long-term gains for girls and women.
Quality sports programming also provides access to resources not often available to girls and young women. Sports programs allow for access to institutional and community resources, such as playing fields, basketball courts, and even something as simple as a soccer ball or basketball. Programming can also provide access to community resources, such as health centers, financial institutions, and community development organizations. Sports programs also create access to safe, female-friendly public spaces where girls can gather to learn new skills, form friendships, expand social networks, and receive mentoring. Access to these safe spaces is an important strategy in overcoming the social isolation that many girls face, further exacerbating discrimination and gender-based violence. A safe and supportive environment is a contributory factor in motivating young people to make healthy choices.
Finally, quality sports programming develops agency and leadership in young women. Sport is an ideal means to teach teamwork and goal-setting, and to develop and practice leadership skills. Sports programs help participants develop a sense of agency, empowering girls to act in their own best interest. Agency and leadership cultivated through sports programs for girls and women builds a tremendous source of human capital by developing the maximum potential of each individual.
As funders look to increase their investments in girls and young women, Women Win encourages implementation of another lesson from Title IX: funding drives equity. Political structures and international resolutions are not enough. What if donors viewed funding of sports programs as an equity strategy and stipulated equitable access as a requirement for funds? What if they required communities to allow girls to play sports as a condition of receiving a grant? How would this stipulation propel a donor's overall goals for a community? Women Win believes that sports-programming-for-women is a strategy that has tremendous impact upon communities, and encourages funders to see it as such and target and leverage funds to increase overall impact.
Funding is needed at all levels, not the least of which is research. In the field of quality sports programming for girls and women, there is an urgent need for longitudinal studies. The studies cited in this essay are snapshots in time and provide valuable baseline information. Research is needed to track changes over time. Programs work in both engaging and educating young women, but longitudinal studies would help to ensure quality and effectiveness. As noted in a sports-for-development impact study conducted by the University of Stirling and funded by Comic Relief and UK Sport, "the data enable us to identify 'what' happened, but there is a need to develop a more in-depth understanding of process—the 'how' and 'why'—and the reasons for inter-program differences, in order to consider issues of 'good practice.'"[xix] Women Win measures success by outcomes, not numbers. Women Win's interest is in seeing every young woman realize her rights, practicing economic and physical empowerment, and living a life free from gender-based violence.
Investors such as Comic Relief, the NoVo Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, Nike, and Standard Chartered are increasingly turning to sports as both a development strategy and a strategy for advancing women's rights. One must look no further than the positive outcomes that Title IX has reaped in the United States to acknowledge the benefits of increasing girls' access to sports. Yet, in communities where gender inequities are deeply embedded and oppressive, sports alone will not alter the outcome for girls and young women. Effective programming must marry human-rights education with the development of life skills. This pairing allows a young woman to both learn about her rights and to acquire the skills and mentors to forge her own path away from poverty and toward economic independence. To sustain the growing momentum of the sports-for-women's-rights movement, and to scale up current successes, investors should consider making the equitable delivery of services a requirement for funding, just as Title IX did almost 40 years ago.
[i] CARE is an international humanitarian organization that fights global poverty. CARE has found that working with women to rise out of poverty has a profound positive effect upon entire families and communities.
[ii] "International Women's Day Celebrations: VOA's Ndimyake Mwakalyelye talks to Peninah Ntheya Musyimi," YouTube video, 4:40, from TV2Africa, March 11, 2011, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO26pT8ISic> (accessed April 19, 2011).
[iii] Ibid.
[iv] Cindy Clark, Ellen Sprenger, and Lisa VeneKlasan, Where is the Money for Women's Rights? (Toronto: Association for Women's Rights in Development, February 2006), 11.
[v] Ruth Levine et al., Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda, (Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2009), <http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/15154> (accessed April 19, 2011), 16.
[vi] "The Girl Effect Data: Why Should We Pay Attention to Girls," Girl Effect Media fact sheet, <http://www.girleffect.org/uploads/documents/1/Girl_Effect_Fact_Sheet.pdf> (accessed April 19, 2011), citing George Psacharopoulos and Harry Anthony Patrinos, Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2881, September 2002.
[vii] Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (1972).
[viii] Del Jones, "Many Successful Women Say Sports Teaches Valuable Lessons," USA Today, March 26, 2002.
[ix] A 2002 study showed that fifty percent of the women who make USD 75,000 and above identify themselves as athletic, and 82 percent of executive businesswomen played organized sports after elementary school. See Danielle Friedman, "Female Jocks Rule the World," The Daily Beast, September 29, 2010, <http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-29/women-and-sports-why-athletic-ladies-excel-in-business/> (accessed April 20, 2011); see also Betsey Stevenson, Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports, National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 15728, (February 2010): abstract, which says, in part, "Analysis of differences in outcomes across states in changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation generates a 1 percentage point increase in female college attendance and a 1 to 2 percentage point rise in female labor force participation."
[x] K.G. Santhya and Komal Saxena, Assessing the Effects of Standard Chartered Bank's Goal Project on Adolescent Girl's Lives, Population Council, 2010, 4.
[xi] UNFPA State of the World Population 2005, The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the MDGs, United Nations Population Fund, 2005 <http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/2005/swp05_eng.pdf> (accessed April 20, 2011), 66.
[xii] Martha Brady, A Snapshot of Girls' Perspectives on Sports, Health, and Empowerment: A Descriptive Study of Women Win Program Partners in Egypt, Kenya, and Uganda, Population Council, 2010, iv.
[xiii] Santhya and Saxena, 14-15.
[xiv] Brady, iii.
[xv] UNFPA State of the World Population 2005, The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the MDGs, 14.
[xvi] Ibid., 50.
[xvii] Santhya and Saxena, 14.
[xviii] Brady, iii-iv.
[xix] Fred Coalter with John Taylor, Sport-for-Development Impact Study, Department of Sports Studies, University of Stirling, October 2010, <www.uksport.gov.uk/docLib/MISC/FredCoaltersseminalMandEManual.pdf> (accessed April 20, 2011), xi.