A convicted sex offender was arrested on a burglary charge after a stolen iPhone led authorities right to him, Indian River County Sheriff's Office detectives said Wednesday.
Phillip Tyrcha was arrested Monday on one count of auto burglary.
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Purdue University has appointed Steven Schultz as its first in-house legal counsel, effective February 1. As manager of Purdue?s legal function, Schultz will advise Purdue president Mitch Daniels and the Board of Trustees on a range of legal issues, and he?ll oversee the provision of external legal services.
For more than 130 years, Lafayette, Indiana, firm Stuart & Branigin has served as the neighboring university?s primary legal counsel. In a statement provided to CorpCounsel.com, partners at the firm expressed support for Purdue?s decision to change its practices.
In a memo sent to faculty and staff Monday, Daniels said that the adoption of an internal legal counsel model is ?now the general rule among major U.S. universities.? Purdue had been the last of the Big Ten schools to rely exclusively on outside legal representation.
In a press release, Daniels said that by hiring internal counsel, Purdue expects to ?identify opportunities to improve the way we procure and manage legal services and thereby realize certain risk-management, oversight, and cost-savings benefits.?
The change comes at a time when university faculty are expressing frustration with the status quo. At a meeting of the Purdue University Senate Monday, faculty members addressed their concerns with recent legal bills.
According to Purdue spokesman Chris Sigurdson, the university has made $6.8 million in payments to Stuart & Branigin over the last three fiscal years. Fees were split roughly evenly among those years: $2.4 million in 2010, $2.1 million in 2011, and $2.3 million in 2012 .
In an email to CorpCounsel.com, Sigurdson said that specific cases or legal matters were not addressed during the faculty meeting and that the discussion was limited to legal bills incurred over the last 18 months.
University Senate chair J. Paul Robinson said in an email to CorpCounsel.com that the faculty has become concerned about what appears to them to be ?runaway? legal expenses.
Robinson says there hasn?t been sufficient oversight and incentive to resolve legal issues reasonably without ?jumping directly to litigation.? He anticipates the installation of an internal lawyer will cut down on unnecessary use of outside counsel. ?The faculty see central management and review as a welcome process,? he says.
Schultz says that bringing ?oversight of the legal function a little closer to the internal decision-making process? was a goal of hiring in-house counsel, adding that cost controls were a perceived benefit of making the change.
The new in-house counsel is taking the position at Purdue after concluding a stint as VP and first-ever general counsel of Southeastern Indiana Health Organization, and a seven-month appointment as special adviser to the State of Indiana on the Ohio River Bridges Project. He was previously executive director of the Louisville and Southern Indiana Bridges Authority.
Schultz earned his bachelor?s degree from Butler University in 1988, majoring in history and political science. He has a J.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge.
After graduation, he practiced corporate law at Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis and worked in the London office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, where he specialized in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and capital markets financings.
Schultz joined Irwin Financial Corporation in 2001 and became general counsel in 2004. Schultz served as then-governor Daniels?s first chief legal counsel from 2005-2006, before returning to Irwin.
Schultz plans to meet with partners at Stuart & Branigin on his first day on the job at Purdue to discuss how to proceed with their partnership. He says he?ll have a better sense of which matters will be farmed out once he starts. ?I?m going to be laser-focused on identifying those,? says Schultz, adding that he feels fortunate that the firm will still be available to help evaluate legal risks and necessary controls.
Thomas Parent, a partner with Stuart & Branigin, said, ?This change has been under discussion for a long time, and we have been actively engaged with Purdue?s Board of Trustees in evaluating various models for the provision of legal services to the university.? He added that the firm would remain dedicated to advancing the school?s mission.
Purdue?s first in-house lawyer looks forward to helping the school navigate what he anticipates will be great changes on the horizon in the field of higher education law.
Schultz, a life-long Hoosier, says he was honored that he was offered the position at Purdue. ?It?s a world-class institution,? he says, ?renowned for its reputation, research and educational rigor, and the high caliber of its people.?
Schultz?s father was a student athlete at Purdue, and at least a dozen other members of his family attended school there. ?I always rooted for the Boilers,? he says. ?I?ve recently been joking to the Purdue folks that although I became a naturalized citizen of the Butler nation, I was born a Boilermaker.?
Source: http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202586195446&rss=rss_cc
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After looking at eight different studies of childhood development, researchers recently concluded that ?reading to a child in an interactive style raises his or her IQ by over 6 points.?
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By Ree Hines, TODAY contributor
When Jillian Michaels returned to "The Biggest Loser" after her recent two-season break, she was a changed woman. The tough-talking trainer became a mother of two during her absence. But if the contestants on the ranch thought that motherhood meant that she'd mellowed out, they soon learned how wrong they were.
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In fact, the trainer returned tougher than ever before, as ousted contestant Pam Geil discovered during her time on Jillian's team.
"Jillian, you know, she's got a real tough-love approach, and it doesn't necessarily work on anyone -- everyone, I should say," Pam reflected during a Monday morning visit to TODAY. "She's a great trainer; she knows what she's doing. It's just ? we just had a little friction."
?Despite that friction, Pam found reason to celebrate while still on the ranch. The week before she was sent packing, she was particularly happy with a 9-pound loss, so she did an enthusiastic dance on the scale that viewers aren't likely to forget any time soon.
"That was following our chaotic last-chance workout (where Jillian and I) screamed at each other," she explained. "I was so nervous I was going home and that (fight) would be my legacy."
So a celebratory dance just seemed like the thing to do. Since going home, Pam has had even more reasons to dance. She's dropped a total of 30 pounds on her own -- in addition to the 30 she lost on the show.
See how Pam's former teammate Danni -- the last remaining member of her team -- fares with Jillian when "The Biggest Loser" airs Monday night at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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Strong ideas are the starting point of any successful business, but if you want to take it further you?ll need to learn how to brand your business. As part of our series on ?How to Start a Business?, ?Joanne Dewberry, Sage Business Expert,?and owner of Charlie Moo?s explains how you can use branding to improve your business.?
Branding isn?t just about having a fabulous logo ? you have to consider every aspect, including yourself.? Ensure you work with colours, styles and themes which you can easily use over the various aspects of your business to provide consistence.? Branding should encompass your whole business, including your ethos, core values and mission statement. Ultimately, when a customer sees your brand, what key things do you want to spring to mind?
The name ?Charlie Moo?s? developed from my son ? Charlie. We have referred to him as ?Moo? since he was a baby. Obviously, Moo lends itself quite nicely to the cow imagery. My friend came up with the concept of the cow being the letter M and it works on so many levels:
When creating visual materials, you need to take all aspects of the design into consideration; fonts, colours, and how the logo will work alongside your existing designs or packaging.
This is an important aspect of your business so if you?re not a graphic designer then employ someone to help you. Our original logo was designed in the basic MS Paint program and was incredibly square and pixelated. We got a graphic designer on board to smooth it all out and make it more visually appealing, which instantly changed the whole appearance of my website and has since paved the way for Megan and Olive Moo. These high-quality images could then also be easily used on branded items such as wrapping paper and cake toppers.
Before you spend any money on logos, business cards, leaflets, web design, etc., it is really useful to get other people?s opinions; whether it?s via people you?ve done business with before or through social media such as Twitter. Try to avoid?just?asking family members as they will have a tendency to give a positive appraisal rather than the constructive criticism you need. Developing a brand is not an easy process, but once it is right you?ve then got to reinforce it in everything you say and do. It inevitably encompasses everything about you and what your business does.
Joanne Dewberry
Joanne is passionate about small business and writes a blog JoanneDewberry.co.uk providing small businesses training, advice & networking in areas of social media, marketing and juggling children and a business. She is also the author of small business book ?Crafting a Successful Small Business?, of which this is an extract
Source: http://www.sage.co.uk/blog/index.php/2013/01/business-branding-for-beginners/
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Scientists are using principles of natural selection to evolve a more efficient solar cell.
Engineers at Northwestern University wrote a computer program that "mates" design elements and assesses the fitness of their "offspring" to come up with the most efficient possible organic solar cell. Organic solar cells are made with the so-called organic elements ? carbon, oxygen and nitrogen ? and are cheaper to make, lighter and more flexible than the traditional silicon cells available in solar panels today.
Organic cells aren't as efficient at turning the sun's energy into electricity as silicon cells, however. Many research groups are working to improve organic solar cells' efficiency. If they work well, such cells could go into? electricity-producing windows ?or clothes.
In their work, the Northwestern researchers focused on the top layer of an organic solar cell, called the scattering layer, which traps photons from sunlight. They wanted a scattering layer that would hold photos for a greater amount of time.
"We wanted to determine the geometry for the scattering layer that would give us optimal performance," Cheng Sun, a mechanical engineer and one of the creators of the new organic solar cell,? said in a statement. "But with so many possibilities, it's difficult to know where to start, so we looked to laws of natural selection to guide us."
Sun and his colleagues' program simulated more than 20 generations of matings to come up with their final design. The program also mimicked the biological processes of mutation and an exchange of traits called crossing over.
The resulting design traps photons for three times as long as the Yablonovitch Limit, which describes how long a photon is likely to stay in a semiconducting material. Researchers have only been able to reach and break the Yablonovitch Limit in the last few years.?
The engineers? published their work ?Jan. 3 in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Bethesda, MD (Jan. 28, 2013) Despite conflicting data in support of the practice, some overweight Americans looking for an easy fix have turned to gastric botox injections to help them lose weight. This month in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, researchers from the Mayo Clinic publish a definitive study finding that Botox doesn't promote weight loss.
Injecting botulinum toxin A (BTA), or Botox, into the stomach had been believed to delay emptying of the stomach, increase feelings of fullness and reduce body weight. Researchers enrolled 60 obese patients in a 24-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, concealed allocation trial to compare the effects of BTA to placebo. They found that the injection slowed movement of food through the stomach but it did not cause weight loss.
"On the basis of our findings, I would not recommend gastric Botox injections to people who want to lose weight. There are some risks with this treatment and we found that there was no benefit in terms of body weight loss," said Mark Topazian, lead author of the study and professor of medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
A previous study had indicated that Botox was a promising weight loss option. This study invalidates those findings because it is larger, used ultrasound to ensure injections were properly placed, and limited bias by ensuring that neither physicians nor patients knew who received Botox and who received placebo injections.
"Unless future studies show different results I'd advise patients to seek other means of achieving weight loss," said Dr. Topazian.
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Bethesda, MD (Jan. 28, 2013) Despite conflicting data in support of the practice, some overweight Americans looking for an easy fix have turned to gastric botox injections to help them lose weight. This month in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, researchers from the Mayo Clinic publish a definitive study finding that Botox doesn't promote weight loss.
Injecting botulinum toxin A (BTA), or Botox, into the stomach had been believed to delay emptying of the stomach, increase feelings of fullness and reduce body weight. Researchers enrolled 60 obese patients in a 24-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, concealed allocation trial to compare the effects of BTA to placebo. They found that the injection slowed movement of food through the stomach but it did not cause weight loss.
"On the basis of our findings, I would not recommend gastric Botox injections to people who want to lose weight. There are some risks with this treatment and we found that there was no benefit in terms of body weight loss," said Mark Topazian, lead author of the study and professor of medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
A previous study had indicated that Botox was a promising weight loss option. This study invalidates those findings because it is larger, used ultrasound to ensure injections were properly placed, and limited bias by ensuring that neither physicians nor patients knew who received Botox and who received placebo injections.
"Unless future studies show different results I'd advise patients to seek other means of achieving weight loss," said Dr. Topazian.
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About the AGA Institute
The American Gastroenterological Association is the trusted voice of the GI community. Founded in 1897, the AGA has grown to include 17,000 members from around the globe who are involved in all aspects of the science, practice and advancement of gastroenterology. The AGA Institute administers the practice, research and educational programs of the organization. www.gastro.org.
About Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The mission of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology is to provide readers with a broad spectrum of themes in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology. This monthly peer-reviewed journal includes original articles as well as scholarly reviews, with the goal that all articles published will be immediately relevant to the practice of gastroenterology and hepatology. For more information, visit www.cghjournal.org.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? For all the grumbling about President Obama at this week's gathering of Republican Party leaders, there's one thing they concede he's really good at: winning elections.
So many of them are eager to adopt strategies ripped from the Democratic campaign playbook: deploying campaign operatives in battleground states year-round; building "relationships" and "trust" in Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods; using social media to bring people together face to face; and most of all, a lot of "listening" to the grassroots. (Recipients of the Obama campaign?s earnest and frequent e-mails get it.)
?Community organizing? Sign me up!" said Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry, alluding to the president?s former occupation and the underlying spirit of his grassroots campaign. ?We?re going to find ways to engage with diverse communities.?
?It?s about finding out what the people in a precinct care about, because if you know that, then they are more likely to listen to you,? said North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes, echoing the Obama campaign?s success at compiling an unprecedented amount of information about individual voters in order to connect with them. ?
While there?s overwhelming consensus that the Republican National Committee needs to ramp up outreach to an increasingly diverse electorate and update its technology for voter contacts, Republicans remain divided on how deep their problems go. Can they make another run at Hispanic voters simply by changing their ?tone? or by upping their investment in Spanish-language media, or does the party need to offer new policy prescriptions, like immigration reform? The RNC?s Growth and Opportunity Project, which is collecting input from rank-and-file Republicans and offering recommendations for future campaigns, is not a policymaking body. More telling will be the upcoming battle on Capitol Hill over offering legal residency to the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country, which will undoubtedly shape the GOP?s ability to court minority voters in 2014 and 2016.
Even more complicated for Republicans will be positioning themselves on issues considered anathema to their conservative base, like abortion and gay marriage, but finding increasing acceptance in the mainstream and especially among women and young voters.
?We talked a lot more about messaging than policy,? said Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Matt Pinnell. ?It?s outreach to all of the above. We don?t need to water down our policies or back away from our principles, but it?s the way we talk about those issues.?
Ari Fleischer, a White House spokesman under former President George W. Bush and one of five leaders of the Growth and Opportunity Project, put it this way: ?Republicans talk policy and Democrats talk people. Republicans can learn from Democrats how to make those connections."
What?s unclear is whether the strategies pioneered by a history-making president can be replicated at a time when the Republican Party is casting about for leadership. ?Is it House Speaker John Boehner? Our presidential candidates in 2016? Or a bunch of people on cable TV trying to raise their profile?? asked Mississippi-based campaign strategist Henry Barbour, another Growth and Opportunity Project cochair. Then-Senate candidate Obama rose to national prominence in his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, when he dismissed the idea of ?red? states and ?blue? states and declared ?there?s the United States of America.? He went on to remake the 2008 campaign map in his presidential run by sweeping states that hadn?t voted Democrat in decades.
?Being a blue state is not a permanent diagnosis,? said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday, taking Obama's cue. ?We must be a party concerned about every American in every neighborhood.?
Priebus also vowed to develop a ?permanent, national field infrastructure,? an operation that could cost the party millions of additional dollars. Colorado Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call said that already he is raising money to put ?regional campaign organizers? on the ground year-round, four by March and eight to 10 by the end of the year. ?We?re not waiting for the RNC to do it,? he said. ?We need to be engaging with voters all of the time, not just five months before the election.?
Sounds familiar. Shortly after the 2008 election, Obama?s team launched a permanent campaign apparatus called Organizing for America to nurture and grow the grassroots network built during the campaign. The group had limited success promoting the administration?s agenda but undoubtedly laid the early groundwork for his reelection bid. Now the organization is retooling as a tax-exempt organization outside the Democratic National Committee.
?As a party, we must recognize that we live in an era of permanent politics,? Priebus said. ?We must stop living nominee-to-nominee, campaign-to-campaign. As we saw this election, our opponent benefited from a multiyear head start.?
Priebus was overwhelmingly reelected to a second term at an uneventful meeting Friday that contrasted with the fireworks two years ago when financial problems sunk former Chairman Michael Steele?s reelection bid, despite Republican gains in the 2010 election. Priebus is widely praised for paying off the $24 million debt he inherited.
?Ordinarily you?d think we?d be throwing folks overboard, but instead we are taking a step back,? said Massachusetts GOP National Committeeman Ron Kaufman, who added that the national party and Mitt Romney's campaign together raised $1 billion. ?People credit Reince Priebus for bringing us back from the abyss.?
Kaufman was a top Romney adviser who admitted to still feeling ?depressed, actually it?s more of a funk.? What has uplifted many GOP activists after Romney?s resounding loss are their leaders back home. That 30 of the nation?s governors are Republicans was repeatedly mentioned during this week?s party gathering. So was the promise of the potential Republican field in 2016, a younger and more diverse crowd exemplified by the 41-year-old Indian-American governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, who addressed the activists Thursday night.
On the Democratic side, most of the possible 2016 contenders are white men, with the notable exception of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Meantime, the RNC is reviewing 24,000 responses to its online survey, talking to hundreds of activists and political pros, and scheduling "listening sessions" from Miami to Seattle. The effort is reminiscent of the Obama team's efforts to help volunteers feel invested. "It's not copying Obama," Kaufman said. "It's catching up."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republican-leaders-obama-campaign-envy-163140156--politics.html
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A puzzling Academy Awards season will sort itself out a bit more on Sunday with the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where top performers gather to honour their own in what often is a prelude for who'll go home with an Oscar.
Among nominees for the 19th annual guild awards are Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones for the Civil War epic "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway for the Victor Hugo musical adaptation "Les Miserables"; and Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Oscar recipient Robert De Niro for the oddball romance "Silver Linings Playbook."
De Niro and Jones are in an exclusive supporting-actors group where all five nominees are past Oscar winners. The others are Alan Arkin for the Iran hostage-crisis thriller "Argo," Javier Bardem for the James Bond adventure "Skyfall" and Philip Seymour Hoffman for the cult drama "The Master."
Honours from the actors union, next weekend's Directors Guild of America Awards and Saturday night's Producers Guild of America Awards ? whose top honour went to "Argo" ? typically help to establish clear favourites for the Oscars.
But Oscar night on Feb. 24 looks more uncertain this time after some top directing prospects, including Ben Affleck for "Argo" and Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty," missed out on nominations. Both films were nominated for best picture, but a movie rarely wins the top Oscar if its director is not also in the running.
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" would seem the Oscar favourite with 12 nominations. Yet "Argo" and Affleck were surprise best-drama and director winners at the Golden Globes, and then there's Saturday's Producers Guild win for "Argo," leaving the Oscar race looking like anybody's guess.
The Screen Actors Guild honours at least should help to establish solid front-runners for the stars. All four of the guild's individual acting winners often go on to receive the same prizes at the Academy Awards.
Last year, the guild went just three-for-four ? with lead actor Jean Dujardin of "The Artist" and supporting players Octavia Spencer of "The Help" and Christopher Plummer of "Beginners" also taking home Oscars. The guild's lead-actress winner, Viola Davis of "The Help," missed out on the Oscar, which went to Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady."
The guild also presents an award for overall cast performance, its equivalent of a best-picture honour. The nominees are "Argo," ''The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," ''Les Miserables," ''Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
Yet the cast prize has a spotty record at predicting the eventual best-picture recipient at the Oscars. Only eight of 17 times since the guild added the category has the cast winner gone on to take the best-picture Oscar. "The Help" won the guild's cast prize last year, while Oscar voters named "The Artist" as best picture.
Such past guild cast winners as "The Birdcage," ''Gosford Park" and "Inglourious Basterds" also failed to take the top Oscar.
Airing live on TNT and TBS on cable television, the show features nine television categories, as well.
The SAG ceremony also includes awards for film and TV stunt ensemble. The film stunt nominees are "The Amazing Spider-Man," ''The Bourne Legacy," ''The Dark Knight Rises," ''Les Miserables" and "Skyfall."
Receiving the guild's life-achievement award is Dick Van Dyke, who presented the same prize last year to his "The Dick Van Dyke Show" co-star, Mary Tyler Moore. Van Dyke's award will be presented by his 1960s TV comedy's creator and co-star, Carl Reiner, and Alec Baldwin.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guild-gold-actors-gather-sags-big-night-key-172844689.html
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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - A woman accused of trying to kill two cats by throwing them in the Willamette River last November has been ordered by the court not to own any pets for the next 15 years.
Betty Ann Gould, 62, pleaded not contest to two misdemeanor counts of attempted aggravated animal abuse in a deal with Springfield city prosecutors to dismiss two charges of animal abandonment, Brian Austin with Springfield Animal Control confirmed.
Gould was sentenced to propation, ordered to pay a fine and barred from owning pets for 15 years.
Witnesses told police the two abandoned Persian cats were found inside of a trash bag that was snagged on a tree branch near Island Park in December 2012.
Responding officers from SPD immediately set to work trying to rescue the cats from the Willamette. They managed to retrieve both felines, who officials said were scared but safe.
Further investigation led police to Gould, a Springfield cat breeder who handles similar breeds of Persians.
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Mazda hopes ride a tankful of chicken guts, beef tallow and pork lard to victory at the grueling Rolex 24 endurance race in Daytona over the coming weekend.
No, the maker isn?t sponsored by the local butcher.? It?s powering its new Mazda6 race car with a custom-made fuel blend that starts out with scraps from Tyson Foods. That organic glop has been converted into a special bio-fuel that will stoke the new SkyActiv-D clean diesel engine that will power Mazda?s entry into the new Grand-Am GX Class at the 24-hour race.
?It?s meat packing residue,? explains John Doonan, the director of Mazda?s ambitious motorsports operation.? And the ultimate blend is so clean the Mazda6 race car won?t need particulate filters or any of the other devices used on other diesel-powered race cars.?
Indeed, Mazda is not the only manufacturer that has switched from gasoline or ethanol to diesel power on the track.? Audi has dominated the Le Mans endurance circuit for much of the past decade, in fact, with a series of racers that routinely leave the competition struggling to keep up.??
The Detroit Bureau:?Nissan Likely to Launch a Number of US-made Hybrids in the Next Year
That?s helped put the spotlight on the German manufacturers focus on the diesel technology it?s putting on the street.? At the Los Angeles Auto Show last November, the maker announced it would soon add four new diesel models to its U.S. line-up.
European car buyers are well aware of diesel?s advantages ? it delivers near hybrid levels of fuel economy and far more power than gas-electric powertrains. Americans, however, are just beginning to catch on. So, it?s Mazda that now needs to get the message across as it prepares to introduce its own new diesel engine to the U.S. market.
In fact, the engine that will be powering the Mazda6 on the Daytona track started out as one of the first production diesels the maker assembled back in Japan last year.??
The Detroit Bureau:?Putting Pedal to the Metal? Here's How Much Extra Fuel You'll Use
The new Mazda6 SkyActiv-D racecar will have some big tire tracks to fill, replacing the maker?s successful RX-8 model.? Mazda will also field two new teams starting with the 2013 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.? It will lose its two previous teams, including Dempsey Racing, which was owned by actor and motorsports fanatic Patrick Dempsey.The maker gave its racing team a mandate, explains Doonan, ?to use as many production components as possible. The only things we?ve changed are the crankshaft, pistons and connecting rod.?? And with good reason considering the track-tuned SkyActiv-D will be churning out 400 horsepower and 450 lb-ft of torque, about double what a street-legal 2014 diesel-powered Mazda6 will be making when it goes on sale later this year.
It?s a risky move to launch a new car with new teams and drivers but Mazda is hoping it will pay off and put the brand in the spotlight this year.
The maker has been going through plenty of changes everywhere you look.? It has largely wound down a decades-old relationship with Ford Motor Co. and stopped producing the Mazda6 at a plant the two makers jointly operated in suburban Detroit.
Mazda, meanwhile, has established several new ? if more limited ? alliances with Toyota and Fiat.? The Italian maker?s Alfa Romeo division plans to work with Mazda to develop a new sports car that both companies can sell.? Ford Mazda, it will serve as the replacement for its aging Miata 2-seater. Toyota, meanwhile, will base a replacement for its subcompact Yaris off the Mazda3 platform. And Mazda will produce some of the new models for Toyota out of a plant it is currently setting up in Mexico.?
The Detroit Bureau:?Mazda betting on alliances with Toyota, Fiat
More alliances could follow, according to Mazda CEO Takashi Yamanouchi.? That could help the small Japanese automaker reduce the hefty expense of developing new products.? Not that Mazda is waiting for assistance.? It has been rolling out an assortment of new models, such as the well-reviewed CX-5 crossover.?
It has also introduced a new concept, dubbed SkyActiv, that it claims can compete with the efficiency of rivals? hybrid products. At its heart, SkyActiv is a new approach to powertrain technology but it also entails steps Mazda engineers are taking to improve the overall efficiency of the maker?s vehicles, down to finding ways to reduce the weight of the lugnuts on the wheels of the new Mazda6.
The all-new version of the sedan will be offered with both the new SkyActiv gasoline and diesel powertrains.
Unfortunately for those who might opt for the SkyActiv-D, they?ll likely have a hard time finding the synthetic diesel Mazda will use on the race track. The renewable blend was developed by Dynamic Fuels, a 50/50 joint venture of Tyson Foods and Syntroleum, and it is being produced at a $150 million refinery which opened up near Baton Rouge, Louisiana two years ago.?
Why Tyson? Because the maker has had to find ways to dispose of 1.5 million pounds of chicken, pork and beef products every single day. Now it can avoid the cost of dumping that offal and potential make some money from it.? The refinery is producing about 75 million gallons of synthetic diesel annually and could ramp up to provide even more.
A number of refiners are working to come up with bio-fuels. The most readily available are ethanol blends. They?ve been controversial because, until now, most have used food stocks, such as corn ? though newer, so-called cellulosic production methods can create the alcohol fuel from waste.?
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Many of the new bio-diesel blends use waste products ? though a select number of filling stations near San Francisco recently began offering a blend created from algae.
Dynamic Fuels ultimately hopes to begin selling some of its synthetic diesel to the public and is shooting for a $5 a gallon price tag, notes Mazda?s U.S. CEO Jim O?Sullivan.
Some shuttle buses operated by Alamo and National Car Rental are already testing it on the street. And the U.S. Navy is also using the bio-diesel blend on some of its ships.
Those who buy the new Mazda6 with SkyActiv-D will have to settle for conventional, petroleum-based diesel fuel. But the maker is hoping that with a 14.5 gallon tank of distilled guts under its hood, the Mazda6 race car will dominate its field when the flag drops at Daytona on Saturday.
Copyright 2013 The Detroit Bureau
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/chicken-guts-pork-lard-will-fuel-mazdas-race-car-1C8119010
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Jan. 25, 2013 ? The "empty nest" of past generations, in which the kids are grown up and middle-aged adults have more time to themselves, has been replaced in the United States by a nest that's full -- kids who can't leave, can't find a job and aging parents who need more help than ever before.
According to a new study by researchers at Oregon State University, what was once a life stage of new freedoms, options and opportunities has largely disappeared.
An economic recession and tough job market has made it hard on young adults to start their careers and families. At the same time, many older people are living longer, which adds new and unanticipated needs that their children often must step up to assist with.
The end result, researchers suggest, are "empty nest" plans that often have to be put on hold, and a mixed bag of emotions, ranging from joy and "happy-to-help" to uncertainty, frustration and exhaustion.
"We mostly found very positive feelings about adults helping their children in the emerging adulthood stage of life, from around ages 18 to 30," said Karen Hooker, director of the OSU Center for Healthy Aging Research.
"Feelings about helping parents weren't so much negative as just filled with more angst and uncertainty," Hooker said. "As a society we still don't socialize people to expect to be taking on a parent-caring role, even though most of us will at some point in our lives. The average middle-aged couple has more parents than children."
The findings of this research were just published in the Journal of Aging Studies, and were based on data from six focus groups during 2009-10. It was one of the first studies of its type to look at how middle-aged adults actually feel about these changing trends.
Various social, economic, and cultural forces have combined to radically challenge the traditional concept of an empty nest, the scientists said. The recession that began in 2008 yielded record unemployment, substantial stock market losses, lower home values and increased demand for higher levels of education.
Around the same time, advances in health care and life expectancy have made it possible for many adults to live far longer than they used to -- although not always in good health, and often needing extensive care or assistance.
This study concluded that most middle-aged parents with young adult children are fairly happy to help them out, and they understand that getting started in life is simply more difficult now. Some research has suggested that age 25 is the new 22; that substantially more parents now don't even expect their kids to be financially independent in their early 20s, and don't mind helping them through some difficult times.
But the response to helping adult parents who, at the same time, need increasing amounts of assistance is not as uniformly positive, the study found -- it can be seen as both a joy and a burden, and in any case was not something most middle-aged adults anticipated.
"With the kids, it's easy," is a general purpose reaction. With aging parents, it isn't.
"My grandparents died younger, so my parents didn't cope with another generation," one study participant said.
Many middle-aged people said it was difficult to make any plans, due to disruptions and uncertainty about a parent's health at any point in time. And most said they we're willing to help their aging parents, but a sense of being time-starved was a frequent theme.
"It brings my heart joy to be able to provide for my mom this way," one study participant said. "There are times when it's a burden and I feel resentful."
The dual demands of children still transitioning to independence, and aging parents who need increasing amounts of care is causing many of the study participants to re-evaluate their own lives. Some say they want to make better plans for their future so they don't pose such a burden to their children, and begin researching long-term care insurance. Soul-searching is apparent.
"I don't care if I get old," a participant said. "I just don't want to become debilitated. So I would rather have a shorter life and a healthy life than a long life like my mom, where she doesn't have a life. She doesn't have memories. Our memories are what make us who we are."
An increasing awareness of the challenges produced by these new life stages may cause more individuals to anticipate their own needs, make more concrete plans for the future, reduce ambivalent approaches and have more conversations with families about their own late-life care, the researchers said in their study.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for publishing a "false photo" of elusive, cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, removed the image from its website and withdrew its print edition.
Chavez is currently convalescing in Cuba after undergoing surgery for cancer for the fourth time on December 11. He has not been seen publicly for six weeks, fuelling rampant speculation over how serious his condition is.
The Venezuelan government and the leader of Argentina, Chavez ally President Cristina Fernandez, condemned the publication of the photo. "As grotesque as it is false," said Venezuelan Information Minister in a Twitter comment.
The grainy photo that El Pais originally splashed on its front page on Thursday, billed as a global exclusive, portrayed the head of a man lying down with a breathing tube in his mouth.
El Pais, one of the biggest Spanish-language publications in the world and an institution both in Spain and in Latin America, said in a brief online statement that it had withdrawn the photo after ascertaining that the image was not of Chavez.
Venezuelan political opposition leaders have criticized government secrecy over Chavez's condition while his supporters have accused foreign media of being in league with the opposition to spread rumors that the president's medical condition is worse than it really is.
The handling of information over Chavez's health has become as contentious as the man himself and official medical updates have been confusing and contradictory.
"El Pais apologizes to its readers for the damage caused. The newspaper has opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of what happened and the errors that were committed in the verification of the photo," the newspaper said in the statement.
The photograph was on the paper's website for half an hour and also appeared in early editions of the print version that were then withdrawn from news stands and replaced with a new edition with a different front page, the company said.
(Additional reporting by Eyanir Chinea in Caracas; Editing by Jon Hemming)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spain-newspaper-sorry-false-photo-chavez-151556199.html
Jan. 23, 2013 ? Researchers participating in the REGICOR Study (Girona Heart Registry)* have carried out a study to assess the impact of the partial smoke-free legislation passed in 2006 on the incidence of acute myocardial infarction in the province of Girona and observed it has dropped 11%. This decrease has been noticed especially among women, population aged between 65 and 74, and among non-smokers.
Researchers analysed data from 3,703 infarctions occurred in Girona between the years 2002 and 2008 and studied whether the number of infarctions had dropped during the period 2006-2008 (after the implementation of the law) compared to the data from the period running from 2002 to 2004 (before the law was in place). According to Irene Roman, researcher in the cardiovascular epidemiology and genetics research group at IMIM and one of the first signatories of the article, "the data from the study show that the total number of infarctions occurring in the population (whether they were treated in hospital or not) has dropped 11% in the period after the implementation of the law (2006-2008)."
Another important point is that this reduction has been observed basically among the group of non-smokers (-15%) and people aged over 65 (-18%). This, according to Roberto Elosua, the coordinator for research in cardiovascular epidemiology and genetics at IMIM, suggests that "the population group that has benefited the most from the law passed in 2006 is that of non-smokers, since their passive exposure to tobacco smoke has decreased."
Coronary heart disease occurs when not enough blood reaches the heart to supply its muscle cells, and is the main cause of death in industrialised countries. In Spain, the most recent statistics show that this disease in 2011 caused 35,268 deaths (9.2% of the total) and 52,725 patients were taken to hospital with an acute myocardial infarction, which is one of the most severe consequences of coronary heart disease. Besides the impact this has on the health of individuals, acute myocardial infarctions have a huge economic impact on society, with an estimated annual cost in Spain of around 1.46 billion Euros.
One of the main risk factors causing acute myocardial infarctions is smoking. In Spain, around 30% of the adult population state they are smokers; even if this percentage has dropped slightly, it continues to be high and has a great impact on cardiovascular health. It is estimated that smoking is the reason behind 20% of the burden of heart disease in European countries, and that passive exposure to tobacco smoke causes around 2,500 of the deaths due to coronary heart disease (7%) in Spain.
Spain has passed two smoke-free legislations: one in December 2005 (Law 28/2005), which entered into force on January 1st 2006; and another one in December 2010 (Law 42/2010) which entered into force on January 1st 2011. The first of these two laws was considered a partial smoke-free law since besides regulating the selling and advertising of tobacco, it banned smoking in the workplace and in hospitality establishments larger than 100 m2 (unless a specific smoking area was created). However, in hospitality establishments smaller than 100m2 it was left to the discretion of the owner of these establishments. In the law of 2011, smoking was banned in all public places.
At present, the effect of the smoke-free legislation which entered into force 2011 is yet to be studied; however, according to researchers, results seen from the partial smoking ban in public places would support the effectiveness of this type of legislation in reducing the burden of disease among the population.
* with the participation of IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) from Barcelona, the Josep Trueta Hospital, the Blanes Hospital and IDIAP Jordi Gol from Girona (Primary Healthcare Research Institute)
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A plane carrying three Canadians has gone missing in Antarctica. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News
Howling winds and snow grounded an effort Thursday to find a small plane missing in a mountainous area of Antarctica for more than two days, rescuers said.
The twin-engine plane, carrying three Canadian crew members, was about an hour into a flight from the U.S.-run Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to an Italian research station at Terra Nova Bay, when its emergency beacon was heard by rescue officials in New Zealand at about 4 a.m. ET Tuesday.
The company that owns the plane,?Kenn Borek Air Ltd.?of Calgary, Alberta, said it was ?maintaining a respectful silence? until the fate of the plane and its crew was known.
The?Calgary Sun?newspaper identified one of those aboard the plane as Bob Heath of the Northwest Territories, calling him a ?star pilot? for Kenn Borek Air.
The newspaper quoted Heath?s wife Lucy Heath as saying she was ?worried? and ?waiting for news.?
A search plane spent about five hours circling over the site of the beacon, which is in a mountainous area, but heavy cloud cover hampered the search and then the weather got worse, officials said.
Winds have topped 100 mph and it was also snowing, Michael Flyger, spokesman for New Zealand?s?Rescue Coordination Center, said.
He added he hoped the next weather forecast "will bring good news,? enabling the search to continue.
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The beacon?s signal is coming from an area about 11,000 feet above sea level, Flyger said.
?It?s pretty mountainous terrain. It?s impossible to say whether it crashed or made an emergency landing or they had a mechanical problem and had to ditch the plane,? he said. ?At the moment we have a plane that?s not where it should be and a locator beacon is going off.?
The beacon can be switched on manually, but it also would begin transmitting if sensors detected a crash, Flyger said.
Despite the conditions in the area, there may be reason for optimism, he added.
?We do know that onboard the aircraft there was a significant amount of survival equipment -- heavy-duty mountain tents, enough water for three people for five days,? he said. ?They?ve certainly got the equipment to look after themselves.?
The National Science Foundation, which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, said the plane was flying in support of Italian Antarctic research.
Searchers from the United States, Italy and Canada are assisting in New Zealand's efforts and have helicopters and airplanes ready to return to the site, Flyger said, adding that the the ideal scenario would be for a helicopter to either land or use a winch to bring up survivors.
?If conditions are good enough, hopefully we can land a short distance away and the team will walk to the crash site,? he said. ??There?s some frustration that the weather has been the way it?s been. The searchers are very keen to get in and crack on with the job."
?We?re very aware that not only are there people out there who need our help, but there are people ... wanting to know what?s going on. We hope to be able to give some good news.?
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Here are ten of the most common questions I get about financial aid and scholarships, and my answers to each.
1. Should we bother to apply if we don?t think we?ll qualify?
Probably, but here?s the litmus test.? If a family cannot write a check for the full cost of their student?s college education next year, they should apply for financial aid.?? Many people who think they won't qualify actually do.? And some schools may require students to complete the FAFSA for merit scholarships.? You have nothing to lose but the time you spend filling out the forms, which isn?t inconsequential, but it?s less risky than forfeiting available financial aid by not applying.
2.? Will applying for financial aid hurt my student?s chances of getting in?
No.? First of all, it?s important to remember that just because you apply for aid doesn?t mean you?ll get any.? So if you?re in the position of debating whether or not to apply for aid, the chances are that while you may get some aid, it won?t be a large enough amount to ever be held against you.? Still, applying for aid has no negative impact at most schools.? Many colleges are ?need-blind? which means that the admissions officers don?t know whether or not you need aid.? And even at schools that are not need-blind, the admissions office wants who they want.? They see it as their job to pick the right students for the freshman class, while the financial aid office?s job is to decide whether or not those kids get aid.?
3. At what parental income level is it not worth it for a family even to complete a FAFSA?
There is no cut off because there are so many other factors considered (number in the family, student income, assets, number of children in college, cost of attendance, etc.).?? So again, use the litmus test.? If you can't write a check for the entire cost of attendance for the coming year, you should apply for aid.? Use one of the previously mentioned calculators and see if you qualify.
4. What if we know we can pay without aid?? Can that help our student get in?
It can at some colleges, particularly at less competitive private schools.? Most applications will ask if you?re going to be applying for financial aid.? Checking ?No? tells them that you are full-pay.? And if you know you?re capable of paying comfortably without any assistance, you likely wouldn?t have qualified for financial aid anyway.
5. Can a student establish residency at an out-of-state public university and then pay in-state tuition?
In the past, yes.? But in recent years, it has become almost impossible unless the entire family moves out of state.? If you couldn?t afford, or wouldn?t want to pay for, out-of-state tuition, attending an out-of-state college could be a risky thing to do.?? Don?t count on getting in-state residence.
6. What if parents are divorced or separated?? Which parent?s financial information will be used?
The parent with whom the child resided most during the 12 months prior to completing the aid application is called the ?Custodial parent??that?s the parent who completes the FAFSA.? Federal guidelines say that it is the custodial parent whose financial information will be used to determine the parental contribution to college.? It?s important to remember that the custodial parent may not necessarily be the parent who was initially awarded custody in the divorce settlement.?? It is all based on who the kid lived with during the base year.
The aid formula also considers a stepparent who lives with the custodial parent as a natural parent.??? That means the financial aid formula doesn?t distinguish between biological parents and step-parents?it only cares which parent, or parents, the student lived with most during the first base income year.
Most colleges will never ask to see income or asset information from a non-custodial parent.? The FAFSA has no questions about non-custodial parents, and while the PROFILE form asks a few questions, the processor does not take this information into account in providing the EFC.?? On the other hand, if you receive child support or alimony, it will appear as your income.?
7. Can my student declare independence from her parents while she?s in college, and therefore, get more financial aid?
If the college decides that a student is no longer a dependent of his parents, then the college won?t assess the parents? income and assets at all.? But it?s the federal government and the colleges themselves who get to decide who is dependent and who is independent, and it is obviously in their best interest to decide that the student is still dependent.? Don?t get your hopes up.? Most kids who are considered independent are foster kids, or kids who have been legally declared independent from their parents.
8. Is it possible to negotiate with a financial aid office to get more aid?
Sometimes it is.? If it looks like you might not be able to send your student to a school she really wants to attend because of money, or if two similarly ranked colleges offered very dissimilar packages, you might consider calling and asking the financial aid office to reconsider its offer.? However, if you can comfortably afford what the college has determined that you must pay, then there is little chance a college will change its aid package.? You?re not buying a used car here. Financial aid officers aren?t likely to do anything that feels like haggling.? But I?ve seen it work. There are times when making that call can lead to a good outcome, especially if the two schools compete for the same applicants, and if the offers are very different. Approach this like a civil business discussion. Leave your emotions out of it.? Be polite and respectful. If there are substantial differences between the two awards, the college will probably ask to see a copy of the other award.? Offer to provide any additional documentation that might be helpful. And always thank the person no matter what the outcome.
9. What's the best way to find scholarships?
There's no need to pay to find outside scholarships.? The best search sources are available for free at finaid.org and scholarships.com.?
Having said that, I meet a lot of families who have the impression there is a lot of money available from outside or private scholarships. These are little-known awards from private companies, foundations, community organizations, churches and other benefactors. There is money to be had from those sources, and they may be worth applying for, but you won?t likely get a free ride from outside scholarships alone.
The best way to get scholarships is to apply to colleges that may pay.? Financial aid offices earmark a certain percentage of money every year just to lure academically appealing students. This practice is called preferential packaging, and it?s not a dirty secret.?? The better the fit between you and a college, the more likely that school will entice you to attend.
10. Can applying early decision hurt my chances of receiving financial aid?
Yes.? Under a binding early decision plan, colleges don?t have as much incentive to entice you with unsolicited aid because you?re bound to attend if they take you.? And if you?re accepted early decision, you give up the chance to compare offers of financial aid from other colleges.
Source: http://www.wiselikeus.com/collegewise/2013/01/financial-aid-faqs.html
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From the Belfast Telegraph.
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A five-year study of hundreds of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland has found flaws in our education system that could be hindering boys? ability to learn.
The research ? funded by the Departments of Education and Justice ? was carried out following concerns about boys? educational underachievement, health and well-being.
It has previously been noted as a particular problem among boys from working-class Protestant areas.
Key findings of the ?Taking Boys Seriously? report, by Dr Ken Harland and Sam McCready from the University of Ulster, include:
- A lack of basic literacy and numeracy skills from primary school which is not being dealt with early post-primary.
- Boys from lower academic class streams perceiving they are not given the same opportunities to learn as those from higher.
- Boys being unprepared for key transitional stages (such as moving schools or moving from junior stream into senior) during adolescence.
- Bullying.
- The formal nature of the classroom leaving a significant number of boys feeling bored, frustrated and impacting negatively on their concentration.
The study of 378 male pupils from nine post-primary schools across Northern Ireland quizzed the boys annually between Years 8 and 12.
[...]Recommendations in the 114-page report include:
- Encouraging more males into teaching.
- Teacher training should support teachers to understand the changing needs of adolescent boys.
Life Site News adds:
The problem of boys? underachievement in primary and secondary school follows them into their later lives. Research from 2006 has tracked the decline in male academic performance over the same period as the rise of feminist-dominated ideologies in academia and policymaking.
The ratio of males to females graduating from a four-year college stood at 1.60 in 1960, fell to parity by 1980, and continued its decline until by 2003, there were 135 females for every 100 males who graduated from a four-year college. Another study found that half of the current gender gap in college attendance can be linked to lower rates of high-school graduation among males, particularly for young black men.
The work of one American researcher may offer clues to the question of why and how. Professor Christopher Cornwell at the University of Georgia has found that a heavily feminist-driven education paradigm systematically favours girls and disadvantages boys from their first days in school.
Examining student test scores and grades of children in kindergarten through fifth grade, Cornwell found that boys in all racial categories are not being ?commensurately graded by their teachers? in any subject ?as their test scores would predict.?
The answer lies in the way teachers, who are statistically mostly women, evaluate students without reference to objective test scores. Boys are regularly graded well below their actual academic performance.
Boys are falling significantly behind in grades, ?despite performing as least as well as girls on math tests, and significantly better on science tests.?
After fifth grade, he found, student assessment becomes a matter of ?a teacher?s subjective assessment of the student?s performance,? and is further removed from the guidance of objective test results. Teachers, he says, tend to assess students on non-cognitive, ?socio-emotional skills.? This has had a significant impact on boys? later achievement because, while objective test scores are important, it is teacher-assigned grades that determine a child?s future with class placement, high school graduation and college admissibility.
Eliminating the factor of ?non-cognitive skills?almost eliminates the estimated gender gap in reading grades,? Cornwell found. He said he found it ?surprising? that although boys out-perform girls on math and science test scores, girls out-perform boys on teacher-assigned grades.
In science and general knowledge, as in math skills, the data showed that kindergarten and first grade white boys? grades ?are lower by 0.11 and 0.06 standard deviations, even though their test scores are higher.? This disparity continues and grows through to the fifth grade, with white boys and girls being graded similarly, ?but the disparity between their test performance and teacher assessment grows.?
[...]The study, he said, shows that ?teachers? assessments are not aligned with test-score data, with greater gender disparities in appearing in grading than testing outcomes?. And the ?gender disparity? always favours girls.
This is why I recommend homeschooling for boys especially up until grade 6 or later, when grading is more objective. And boys should focus on math, science, technology and engineering, where there is less room for discrimination by feminist teachers who are biased against boys. Unfortunately, even though you are homeschooling, you still have to pay taxes for the feminist-dominated public school system, which enjoys overwhelming support from women voters, especially single women voters.
The best book on this topic is by Christina Hoff Sommers, entitled ?The War Against Boys?. If you click through to the Life Site News article, they have a section on it towards the end of the article. It is very important that pastors and other conservatives understand that the current problems with boys and young men are not going to be solved by ignorant male-blaming slogans like ?Man Up!?. Christians and conservatives need to think more deeply about these problems, and they may find that they are actually espousing the very thing (feminism) that is the root cause of the decline in men, and their lack of interest in marriage. Let?s take a look at the studies and be bound by research instead of the desire to please women in our churches by telling them that men are to blame for their woes.
Check out my previous post about the Cornwell study, which compared teacher-assigned test scores with standardized test scores for girls and boys.
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