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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Tim Baines reflects on football-playing family | Football | Sports ...

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For nearly 30 years, I?ve been writing about amateur athletes, hundreds and hundreds, maybe a thousand of them.

All were so wonderfully unique in their own way, playing a game because of pride and passion ? untainted by big paydays and the things that bog down professional poster boys.

All the while, the four children who came into this world thanks to my wife Kelly-Anne ? Brent, Jarryd, Mitchell and Riley ? were growing up, making us proud (with some report-card exceptions). Not once, through district and provincial championships, through a national championship final appearance, through plenty of individual accolades, did I think about writing about my kids. As sports editor, I vetoed photos of them appearing in the newspaper. Others rightfully got the publicity.

But, going into Saturday?s Yates Cup in Hamilton, with the University of Guelph facing the Herculean task of trying to knock off the McMaster Marauders, I?m going to do something I?ve never done: Toot the horn for one of my offspring, Jarryd, a fifth-year linebacker with the Gryphons.

To be clear, a younger son, Mitchell, also plays university football so my loyalties are a bit clouded by Garnet and Grey, a uniform also worn by my brother-in-law Trevor, and the Wilfrid Laurier jersey I put on so long ago. My youngest, Riley, is finishing off high school at St. Patrick, enjoying the recruiting process as he decides where to play football next season.

It?s not like the Baines family is a football factory. We?re not the Mannings. But putting three kids into the CIS is something we?re excited about.

It has been a wonderful five years for Jarryd. He dressed in his first year and has been a starter the four years since. This season has been his best. During the regular season, he tied for the lead (not just in the OUA, but for the country) in forced fumbles with five, had three sacks, two interceptions and was 10th in the OUA in tackles with 38. At 5-foot-10, 195 pounds, as a SAM backer, he often crashes and bangs with players much bigger. He had choices where to go to school and where to play football. Guelph was the right choice at the time.

Time flies. Not so long ago, he was a numbskull 13-year-old who missed a whole baseball season after a shopping cart he was riding in crashed into a tree ? Jackass style. A year later, he was the long-haired kid with tears waterfalling down his eyes when the Gloucester A?s lost in the Canadian Little League championship game in B.C., one win away from going to the Little League Junior World Series in Taylor, Mich.

And now, here he is, grown up, no longer a Johnny Knoxville-wannabe. Twenty-three years old. Making his family proud. Playing for two of his grandparents who have both discovered in the past few months they have different forms of cancer. Playing because he loves the game. Playing because he is one with his teammates.

What coach Stu Lang and his Gryphon coaching staff have done is nothing short of phenomenal. This team won two games a year ago. But up and down the roster, the kids have shown incredible resilience, heart and unbridled passion for playing a game that will someday soon be in the rear-view mirror for them. Their one loss this season, which came before their current eight-game winning streak, was a spanking at the hands of the Marauders, who have put the boots to everyone who stands in the way. They are the defending Vanier Cup champs and are scary good. In their lineup is Ottawa?s Tyler Crapigna, an OUA first-team all-star and one of Canada?s top college kickers.

The Gryphons will be heavy underdogs when they step on the field. Nobody gives them much of a chance. But I get the feeling the Gryphons don?t really don?t give a damn what anybody else thinks.

They fell behind Queen?s by 22 points late in Saturday?s OUA semi-final, but scored 15 points in the final four minutes to tie it, then won in overtime. Such joy ... I can?t remember ever hugging as many people.

Through the eyes of my kid, I have come to believe ? in him, his coaches and teammates.

Each week, I tell Jarryd: Make an impact. Make a difference.

And on a big stage, Saturday in Hamilton, he?ll once again get that chance.

Win or lose, I?m proud of what my son has done the past five years.

Sure, I?m biased ... it?s my kid. The love of a parent overrides any shred of objectivity and journalistic integrity I might have ... I?m sure there are a lot of proud mamas and papas out there who know exactly what I?m talking about.

tim.baines@sunmedia.ca

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Source: http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/11/09/tim-baines-reflects-on-football-playing-family

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Transgender Pakistanis face society's scorn

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Transgender Pakistanis face society's scorn
By ANJUM NAVEEDBy ANJUM NAVEED, Associated Press? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATEMENT OF NEWS VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATEMENT OF NEWS VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, photo, a man, bottom left, offers money to Sonia, 26, a transgender Pakistani, while dancing at the birthday party of her transgender friend, Sana, not pictured, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn. Families often push them out of the home when they?re young, forcing many to prostitute themselves to earn a living. Onee role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated.(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, photo, Sumbal, 32, a transgender Pakistani, rests in her apartment after returning from a wedding party of a customer, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn. Families often push them out of the home when they?re young, forcing many to prostitute themselves to earn a living. One role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, photo, Sumbal 32, left, a Pakistani transgender, applies makeup to her fellow Kate Heart, as they get ready to perform in a wedding, at her apartment in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn. Families often push them out of the home when they?re young, forcing many to prostitute themselves to earn a living. One role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated.(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, photo, Kate Heart, 19, a Pakistani transgender, applies makeup before heading to a wedding party where she will perform, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn. Families often push them out of the home when they?re young, forcing many to prostitute themselves to earn a living. One role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, photo, a Pakistani man ties the bra of his transgender friend Kate Heart, 19, while getting ready to perform at a wedding party, at her friend's apartment in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn. Families often push them out of the home when they?re young, forcing many to prostitute themselves to earn a living. One role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) ? Dressed up in elaborate, feminine outfits and artfully applied makeup, they are showered with money while dancing at all-male wedding parties. But the lives of transgender people in Pakistan are also marked by harassment, rejection and poverty.

Transgender people live in a tenuous position in conservative Pakistan, where the roles of the sexes are traditionally starkly drawn. Families often push them out of the home when they're young, forcing many to prostitute themselves to earn a living.

One role where they are tolerated is as dancers at weddings and other celebrations at which men and women are strictly segregated. In between the dancing and showers of rupee notes, they must fend off groping from drunken guests.

"I don't understand why people feel it is their duty to tease and taunt us," said one transgender Pakistani who goes by the name Symbal. Many in the transgender community pick a name for themselves and do not use their last name to protect their family.

Others beg on the streets or earn money by blessing newborn babies. The blessings reflect a widespread belief in Pakistan and other South Asian nations that God answers the prayers of someone who was born underprivileged, said Iqbal Hussain, a Pakistani researcher who has studied the transgender community. But he cautioned that didn't mean people were ready to give them equal rights.

In recent years the community has gained some government protection. A Supreme Court ruling in 2011 allowed them to get national identity cards recognizing them as a separate identity ? neither male or female ? and allowing them to vote. In neighboring India, the election commission ruled in 2009 that transgender people could register to vote as "other," rather than male or female.

In other parts of the region and Muslim world, the attitude toward transgenders is also complex. In Thailand, the community is very visible and broadly tolerated. Transgender people are regularly seen on TV soap operas, working at department store cosmetics counters or popular restaurants and walking the runways in numerous transgender beauty pageants.

Many transgender Indonesians publicly wear women's clothes and makeup and work as singers. But societal disdain still runs deep. They have taken a much lower profile in recent years, following a series of attacks by Muslim hard-liners.

In Malaysia, Muslim men who wear women's clothes can be prosecuted in Islamic courts.

In the Arab world, there is little opportunity for transgender people to openly show their identity in public. In 2007, Kuwait made "imitating members of the opposite sex" a crime, leading to the arrest of hundreds of transgender women, Human Rights Watch said. In Iraq, extremists have targeted and killed people perceived of being gay or effeminate.

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Busch wins pole, Keselowski outqualifies Johnson

Jimmie Johnson looks out of his car following qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

Kyle Busch gestures to cheering fans after winning the pole during qualifying for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

Kyle Busch checks results on a scoreboard after climbing out of his No. 18 car and setting the pole during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

Danica Patrick reacts as she looks at a scoreboard displaying her time during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

Kurt Busch, left, talks with Brad Keselowski, right, during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? Brad Keselowski isn't rolling over for Jimmie Johnson, not with two races to go in their championship battle and not at Phoenix International Raceway.

Keselowski outqualified Johnson by 10 positions Friday at one of the five-time NASCAR champion's best race tracks.

It was an unusual twist for the top two contenders, as Johnson is typically the better qualifier and Keselowski has struggled in that area through the first eight races of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

And there should be no question which driver would be in control at Phoenix, where Johnson is a four-time winner and has a 5.3 average finish and Keselowski has only one career top-five.

But when the qualifying session was over, Keselowski had locked down the 14th starting spot for Sunday's race, while Johnson was in 24th. It's the lowest qualifying position for Johnson in a Chase race since the 2010 opener at New Hampshire, and his worst this season since the August Bristol race.

"Wasn't so good, but we've been fighting a little bit in qualifying trim," Johnson said. "But, we've got a great baseline race setup to go off."

Johnson struggled with the sun glare in the first turn.

"The glare was pretty bad getting into the turn, then getting the power down was tough for me up off of two," he said. "Three and four were pretty good, I felt like on both of my laps, but I struggled oddly enough down there this time."

Johnson moved into the points lead with his win at Martinsville two weeks ago, and widened the margin to seven points with a second-straight victory last week at Texas.

But Keselowski is eager to reclaim the top spot he held down for five weeks of the Chase, and knows how to get it back.

"I'm running to win, whatever that means," he said. "Win the race and things become a lot easier. You don't have to worry about those things."

Neither championship contender was near the front of the field, where Kyle Busch set a track in winning the pole.

Busch ran a lap of 138.766 mph to earn the top starting spot, breaking the mark of 137.279 set by Carl Edwards in 2011.

It was a big improvement for Busch from a year ago, when he came into the race in crisis. He had to fight to keep his job after intentionally wrecking Ron Hornaday Jr. in a Truck Series race at Texas a week earlier, which led NASCAR to park him for the rest of the weekend, qualified poorly and finished 34th.

"It's kind of cool because here a year ago we qualified 36th ? dead last on speed ? and then this year we're fastest, top of the sheets," Busch said. "It's really good for all of us. I'm just proud of the effort."

Martin Truex Jr. qualified second and Denny Hamlin was third to give Toyota the top three starting spots.

All three Toyota drivers thought the track surface and grip was difficult, with Hamlin and Truex even calling it "treacherous."

"At the start of practice it was pretty treacherous just because it's been sitting, so it's just tough to know," Truex said of the track surface. "We go through so

much with transition in the race car throughout practice because the track is new and the tires are kind of hard. This is a great race track and just hope the groove gets a little bit wider before the race starts."

Kasey Kahne qualified fourth and was followed by Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Paul Menard.

Regan Smith was eighth, Tony Stewart was ninth and Mark Martin rounded out the top 10.

Associated Press

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Friday, November 9, 2012

Habitable planet: New super-Earth in six-planet system may be just right to support life

ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) ? A new super-Earth planet that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life has been discovered around a nearby star by an international team of astronomers, led by Mikko Tuomi, University of Hertfordshire, and Guillem Anglada-Escude, University of Goettingen.

The new super-Earth planet exists in the habitable zone of a nearby star and is part of a six-planet system. The system was previously thought to contain three planets in orbits too close to the star to support liquid water. By avoiding fake signals caused by stellar activity, the researchers have identified three new super-Earth planet candidates also in orbit.

Mikko Tuomi said: "We pioneered new data analysis techniques including the use of the wavelength as a filter to reduce the influence of activity on the signal from this star. This significantly increased our sensitivity and enabled us to reveal three new super-Earth planets around the star known as HD 40307, making it into a six-planet system."

Of the new planets, the one of greatest interest is the one with the outermost orbit from the star -- with a mass at least seven times of the Earth. Its orbit around the host star is at a similar distance to Earth's orbit around our Sun, so it receives a similar amount of energy from the star as the Earth receives from the Sun -- increasing the probability of it being habitable. This is where the presence of liquid water and stable atmospheres to support life is possible and, more importantly, the planet is likely to be rotating on its own axis as it orbits around the star creating a daytime and night-time effect on the planet which would be better at creating an Earth-like environment.

Guillem Angla-Escude said: "The star HD 40307, is a perfectly quiet old dwarf star, so there is no reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate."

Hugh Jones, University of Hertfordshire, added: "The longer orbit of the new planet means that its climate and atmosphere may be just right to support life. Just as Goldilocks liked her porridge to be neither too hot nor too cold but just right, this planet or indeed any moons that it has lie in an orbit comparable to Earth, increasing the probability of it being habitable."

Earlier this year, the Kepler spacecraft found a planet with a similar orbit. However, Kepler 22d is located 600 light years from Earth, whereas this new super-Earth planet known as HD 40307g is much closer being located at 42 light years from Earth.

Mikko Tuomi carried out this work as a member of the European science network RoPACS (Rocky Planets Around Cool Stars) -- an initiative with a research focus on the search for planets around cool stars. RoPACS has pan-European membership and is led from the University of Hertfordshire by David Pinfield, who commented: "Discoveries like this are really exciting, and such systems will be natural targets for the next generation of large telescopes, both on the ground and in space."

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UK needs 330 billion pounds energy investments by 2030 - LSE

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will need to invest 330 billion pounds in its energy sector, excluding networks, by 2030 and return its economy to growth to meet carbon emissions reduction targets, the London School of Economics said in a report on Thursday.

Britain aims to cut carbon emissions by 34 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050, but does not have a binding target for 2030.

The investments are needed to build new power plants, retrofit existing ones with carbon-reduction technology and to limit energy demand.

"The key question will be how do we attract pension funds, which are one source of capital, and generally the financial sector, being banks and insurance companies, to join the market?" said Volker Beckers, chief executive of RWE npower, which commissioned the report.

He said only around 30-40 percent of the investment can be covered by balance sheets and project finance of British energy companies, leaving the lion's share of money needed to other investors.

Experts have forecast Britain's energy investments at 200 billion pounds until 2020.

A separate report showed on Wednesday that Britain's power grid alone needs a yearly investment of 1.6 billion pounds to connect renewable energy.

If Britain wants to reach its long-term climate change targets, it also needs to return to stable economic growth and the eurozone debt crisis has to be resolved, the LSE said.

This scenario is one of three pathways the report outlines, setting out the most optimistic option for Britain's energy system, but also the most expensive one.

"It involves a financial services sector in good health, that has not only recovered sufficiently to channel higher levels of inward investment and to attract international investment in the UK," the LSE said in its report.

The school estimates that by 2030 around 67 gigawatts (GW) of power plants in Britain will be a mixture of gas plants fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology (10 GW), traditional fossil fuel plants (40.5 GW) and nuclear power stations (16.5 GW).

This will be paired with around 50 GW of renewable energy capacity, such as wind and solar farms.

The two alternative scenarios paint a more gloomy outlook for economic growth, with a gas-focused option predicting return to economic growth from the early 2020s and an austerity scenario forecasting anaemic growth until 2030.

Under neither of these circumstances would Britain meet its carbon reduction targets and investments coming forward would be tighter at 180 billion and 130 billion, respectively.

(Reporting by Karolin Schaps; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-needs-330-billion-pounds-energy-investments-2030-000433293--sector.html

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Youth vote decides presidential election ??again. Is this the new normal?

The youth vote proved decisive in Tuesday's presidential election, just as it did in 2008. But this year, it was a far greater surprise.

By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,?Staff writer / November 7, 2012

Supporters of President Obama celebrate victory at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday.

Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor

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Millennials made it to the polls in droves Tuesday ? proving themselves a central voting bloc in swing states and defying speculation that their enthusiasm had waned since the days of Barack Obama?s historic candidacy in 2008.

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People age 18 to 29 made up 19 percent of voters in this election cycle, up 1 percentage point from 2008, according to early National Exit Poll (NEP) data.

President Obama won this age group with 60 percent support, versus 36 percent for Mitt Romney.

If Mr. Romney had received at least 50 percent of the support of this age group in the swing states of Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Florida, 80 electoral votes would have gone his way, winning him the presidency, according to an analysis by CIRCLE, an independent research center that measures youth engagement in politics.

Of all people under 30 who were eligible to vote, at least 49.3 percent did register and cast a ballot, a number that could rise to 51 percent in the final analysis and basically match the youth turnout of 52 percent in 2008, CIRCLE reports, based on its analysis of NEP data. That?s between 22 and 23 million people.

The youth turnout is about 10 points lower than estimates of the turnout rate overall, as in past elections. But it?s up significantly from 1996, when just 37 percent of the under-30 set voted.

?It?s a new normal, with about half of the millennial generation voting ? and they make a decisive difference,? said CIRCLE director Peter Levine in a press call Wednesday.

Voter advocacy groups ranging from the League of Women Voters to Rock the Vote spent weeks leading up to the election challenging new voter laws that would hinder young voters and ensuring that young people had the information they needed to understand ID requirements and options for casting their votes. Students mounted registration drives and made sure people who wanted to vote early could get rides.

?Young people are savvy, and they?re committed to this idea is that their participation is how they take back power in this country,? says Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan youth-engagement organization. And if the voting systems were less antiquated and easier to navigate, the youth turnout would probably have been even higher, she says.

As it was for other Americans, the economy was the top issue for young people heading into the election, surveys have shown.

Unemployment for 18- to 29-year-olds is 12 percent, compared with under 8 percent for the nation as a whole, according to Generation Opportunity, a nonpartisan group launched in 2011 to engage young people on economic issues through social media.

While the bulk of young people voted to give the president four more years to try to make a dent in that issue, his support among them did drop 6 percentage points compared with 2008.

Only 38 percent of young people believe that today?s political leaders reflect the interests of young Americans, according to Generation Opportunity polls.

That?s significant, because by 2020, millennials will make up 38 percent of the electorate, and both parties need to ?focus on solutions that matter: job creation and dealing with the debt,? says Paul Conway, president of Generation Opportunity and a former Labor Department chief of staff.

Obama and his campaign reached out to young people and through social media, where they engage with issues that matter to them 24/7, says Mr. Conway. The Republican Party needs to realize that reaching out to this demographic is worthwhile for them too, and it will take more than some slick YouTube videos, he says. ?To think they are all liberal just because 60 percent supported the president is illogical,? he says.

In California, online registration and ballot initiatives of interest to young people may help explain why young people, who make up just under 24 percent of the population, were actually 28 percent of the voters, CIRCLE's Mr. Levine said.

The overwhelming support for Obama among African-American and Latino voters also overlaps with the youth vote. Among under-30 voters in those groups, 91 percent and 72 percent, respectively, voted for Obama, according to CIRCLE.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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