Julie's Organic Ice Cream Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMm9KO2HDqq7TzFP4oFkpABr57J_MAX9vCjqD8jelzWjFK0PD88HVzuKulvGybeEmitkKHZrBp5HGWpro6eSq444VhhmlZ7SrO8nOIuKFjJcxhlm8KdkfV6oJQnNoY6I-4xC6cz0HfpU/s1600/julie's+organic+logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMm9KO2HDqq7TzFP4oFkpABr57J_MAX9vCjqD8jelzWjFK0PD88HVzuKulvGybeEmitkKHZrBp5HGWpro6eSq444VhhmlZ7SrO8nOIuKFjJcxhlm8KdkfV6oJQnNoY6I-4xC6cz0HfpU/s1600/julie's+organic+logo.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie and her husband Tom of <a href="http://juliesorganic.com/">Julie's Organic Ice Cream</a> along with their two sons purchased a ice cream company in 1996 and wanted to make ice cream products that were better for the family and also the environment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So she set out on a mission and started to get to work by finding the best of ingredients to make the ice creams taste great!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They started getting their hands on the best add ins for their ice creams such as fruits, cream, chocolates and ice cream.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then in 1998 they launched their company of the most delicious ice creams and have grown since then from pints, ice cream bars, novelties, and they've also got non dairy products as well!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you ever heard of Alden's ice cream?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie's son is in fact Alden, he launched the first family sized ice cream!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow, I never knew that!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing up I would always have ice cream, whether it was  for going to see the fireworks, going to the beach or just as a treat at the ice cream parlor it was pure heaven and so delicious!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, words can not describe how excited I was when I was sent some coupons for review!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to try them!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjvAtuFBFkj87XHrJl0IratNoyK9mg_RtxeS2IP-1PeL3-I1Y5lb7-2Kpypl3E6MrhNAcgbsMq9kKWKQDaZ3i-pkFO8-c7M1ZHoeOj7QptWcXos5TgEgnEaYHOQv0bNtH84ez10qxgZE/s1600/Julie's+Organic+Vanilla+Ice+Cream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjvAtuFBFkj87XHrJl0IratNoyK9mg_RtxeS2IP-1PeL3-I1Y5lb7-2Kpypl3E6MrhNAcgbsMq9kKWKQDaZ3i-pkFO8-c7M1ZHoeOj7QptWcXos5TgEgnEaYHOQv0bNtH84ez10qxgZE/s320/Julie's+Organic+Vanilla+Ice+Cream.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ha ha I have found you at least!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At first when I went into Whole Foods I couldn't find the pints.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So today I went to my local Shaw's market and what do you know!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BAM!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right in the freezer section!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so glad I found this stuff!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanilla cookie with Lemon Ice Cream Sandwich:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdy5iOs4rL83lG4w9tNrHViscutQRClHtl97KAuxRyTi9UiVeBAGVH3VGdNfMUWF291ajmb8hKl5TdWF1hME9hY0s2NBWOyvstRfoKbNMi81WiDqMVcCq4V8Kh8xKOctQ54Zl0Sdg_uQ/s1600/Julie's+organic+lemon+and+vanilla+cookie+sandwich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdy5iOs4rL83lG4w9tNrHViscutQRClHtl97KAuxRyTi9UiVeBAGVH3VGdNfMUWF291ajmb8hKl5TdWF1hME9hY0s2NBWOyvstRfoKbNMi81WiDqMVcCq4V8Kh8xKOctQ54Zl0Sdg_uQ/s320/Julie's+organic+lemon+and+vanilla+cookie+sandwich.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lemon ice cream is creamy, cool and refreshing with a citrus zing that will make your lips pucker!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tastes great with the decadent smoothness of the vanilla cookie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chocolate Cookie with Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRh8IxnZ8CZOXn904Yfvk-v_rHbX-AhUimPx55v2eAAoA4NQJl8vCBXrRARIvVS46EKPaAItASlbiLzozDRQwtCRTvyW3y1m0bRdbNl9BnKVZNFPDHPMolN26c2xc6Uki790HI0sbpR0/s1600/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+and+vanilla+ice+cream+sandwich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRh8IxnZ8CZOXn904Yfvk-v_rHbX-AhUimPx55v2eAAoA4NQJl8vCBXrRARIvVS46EKPaAItASlbiLzozDRQwtCRTvyW3y1m0bRdbNl9BnKVZNFPDHPMolN26c2xc6Uki790HI0sbpR0/s320/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+and+vanilla+ice+cream+sandwich.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I've tried many ice cream sandwiches and loved them as a kid!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the packaging of these, they are very creative and decorative looking!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could even reuse them!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mom and I couldn't wait to eat one, so we opened one in the car.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know how when you bite into an ice cream cookie sandwich and it's mushy and it gets all over your fingers?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well not this cookie!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has great chocolate taste in the cookie and it's a little crunchy so it doesn't melt on your fingers!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great vanilla ice cream center, so delicious and creamy sandwiched between the two cookies!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanilla Ice Cream:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkj-8kV_Cwie7Xl0k8h7eu7qp0dEOSUO3I1kZfi8PmHdvcVJHZUNyzUFhyphenhyphenLaChLguvbRYg_KxHD4AV7mhd_Q-9VJZux8Bzw0mRf7dn0BxerHvGSX7qFWp0Cgq5RQ4zO8WjV6lMxsQefAY/s1600/Julie's+Organic+vanilla+ice+cream+with+love+crunch+aloha+blend.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkj-8kV_Cwie7Xl0k8h7eu7qp0dEOSUO3I1kZfi8PmHdvcVJHZUNyzUFhyphenhyphenLaChLguvbRYg_KxHD4AV7mhd_Q-9VJZux8Bzw0mRf7dn0BxerHvGSX7qFWp0Cgq5RQ4zO8WjV6lMxsQefAY/s320/Julie's+Organic+vanilla+ice+cream+with+love+crunch+aloha+blend.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know about you but whenever I have ice cream it needs something on top, whether it's some fresh fruit, chocolate syrup or caramel sauce!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just tastes good with a little extra something you know?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my latest obsessions is the Nature's Path Love Crunch granola's!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are so delicious and don't have all those added sugars,fats and hidden ingredients like other brands do.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I sprinkled some of the Love Crunch Aloha Blend on top of Julie's Organic Vanilla ice cream.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those of you who haven't heard or seen the Aloha mixture it has bits of coconut, freeze dried pineapples and best of all white chocolate!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to dig in!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then took a little spoonful and tried it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is seriously the best ice cream that I have had in a long time!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's made with organic and all natural ingredients and it tastes homemade like it came fresh out of the ice cream maker!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great vanilla taste and it didn't even need any ingredients at all, but hey that's just me!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Chocolate Frozen Yogurt:</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDnQkppjo3mRsDk8xGhs9ooi62lfiIRltPR8bZw1h5vY2wCtqfTzmA9U_MUlvAgPMfwqJKzi7SPigb0NSQfMKURBDK0s3-1V8SUvhTwk-OTILjofQbPZUdVGZ7K0ZuKUmWIyWwjNWcL0/s1600/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+froyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDnQkppjo3mRsDk8xGhs9ooi62lfiIRltPR8bZw1h5vY2wCtqfTzmA9U_MUlvAgPMfwqJKzi7SPigb0NSQfMKURBDK0s3-1V8SUvhTwk-OTILjofQbPZUdVGZ7K0ZuKUmWIyWwjNWcL0/s320/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+froyo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could not believe the taste of the chocolate, it was amazing!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet, creamy and delicious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Didn't have the icy texture in it like some other frozen yogurts do.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great for shakes, on a cone or in a bowl with some sprinkled granola or fresh fruit!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Blackberry Sorbet Bar:</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkhgYQwP9KS18GP57xpZciwl-1OA7-U__uXu5C8xxCZDZWzTcJrJ2aAKg8J_FX4zdXR4YlU-g6pfDOrVlvzClXk6IisSSGRXrHxNmUFmZXHmWwjC9BdmoYcEhSumbjjKd8oIpjUaYlCA/s1600/Julie's+Organic+blackberry+sorbet+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkhgYQwP9KS18GP57xpZciwl-1OA7-U__uXu5C8xxCZDZWzTcJrJ2aAKg8J_FX4zdXR4YlU-g6pfDOrVlvzClXk6IisSSGRXrHxNmUFmZXHmWwjC9BdmoYcEhSumbjjKd8oIpjUaYlCA/s320/Julie's+Organic+blackberry+sorbet+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hot day?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This refreshingly cool and creamy treat will sure cool you down.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So light and delicious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can really taste the blackberries as well which is great because I love blackberries!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always throw them on top of my yogurt when I have some handy in the house.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Other products*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorbet bars</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">non dairy pints</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ice cream bars</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Be cautious of mind-altering drugs for kids: doctors | Reuters

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="focusParagraph" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; ">Doctors warn about the ethical and medical implications of prescribing attention-boosting and mood-altering medications to healthy kids and teens, in a new statement from the American Academy of Neurology.</p></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Focusing on stimulants typically used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, researchers said the number of diagnoses and prescriptions have risen dramatically over the past two decades.</p><span id="midArticle_2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Young people with the disorder clearly benefit from treatment, lead author Dr. William Graf emphasized, but the medicines are increasingly being used by healthy youth who believe they will enhance their concentration and performance in school.</p><span id="midArticle_3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1.7 percent of eighth graders and 7.6 percent of 12th graders have used Adderall, a stimulant, for nonmedical reasons.</p><span id="midArticle_4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Some of those misused medicines are bought on the street or from peers with prescriptions; others may be obtained legally from doctors.</p><span id="midArticle_5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"What we're saying is that because of the volume of drugs and the incredible increase… the possibility of overdiagnosis and overtreatment is clearly there," said Graf, from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.</p><span id="midArticle_6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In their statement, published in the journal Neurology, he and his colleagues say doctors should not give prescriptions to teens who ask for medication to enhance concentration against their parents' advice.</p><span id="midArticle_7" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Prescribing attention- or mood-enhancing drugs to healthy kids and teens in general cannot be justified, for both legal and developmental reasons, Graf and his co-authors conclude.</p><span id="midArticle_8" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"You're giving amphetamines to kids. I think we have to be worried about how that affects the brain, mood, rational thought… and we don't have enough data about that yet," he told Reuters Health.</p><span id="midArticle_9" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Almut Winterstein, a pharmacy researcher from the University of Florida in Gainesville, agreed that not much is known about the effects of long-term stimulant use - another reason to be careful and make sure they're really necessary for a specific child. In the short term, stimulants increase heart rate and blood pressure.</p><span id="midArticle_10" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"If you have a child who actually can sit still and doesn't seem to have a problem focusing on a task, a stimulant won't do a thing, and definitely won't improve school performance," said Winterstein, who didn't work on the new statement.</p><span id="midArticle_11" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I am concerned personally that many parents believe that if their child doesn't do well in school, they must have ADHD," and therefore need stimulants, she told Reuters Health.</p><span id="midArticle_12" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The new statement is also endorsed by the Child Neurology Society and the American Neurological Association.</p><span id="midArticle_13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Graf noted that childhood is changing in the United States: kids are being challenged in school, but also spending more and more time in front of screens.</p><span id="midArticle_14" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"The majority still has to agree that we're not going to give a pill for every problem in childhood," he said. "We're talking about healthy kids."</p></div><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-medications-kids-idUSBRE92C17H20130313">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-medications-kids-idUSBRE92C17H20130313</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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SchoolNetSA at the National Teachers Awards

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet and Omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Teachers Awards was held at the Gallagher Estate Conference Centre on 7 March, 2013. This event is in its 13^th year and is growing annually. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A number of finalists are nominated via our nine provinces in the following categories:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Primary School Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Secondary School Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Primary School Leadership </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Secondary School Leadership </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Grade R Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Special Needs Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in ICT - Enhanced Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lifetime Achievement Award</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally the category for <b>Excellence in ICT – Enhanced Teaching </b>is closest to SchoolNet’s heart. Pictured here, <b>Warren Sparrow</b> of Rondebosch Boys Prep, <b>Duma Nhlumbini</b> of WillowVale High School and <b>Mabore Lekhalaka</b> of Toronto Primary were all finalists in the Excellence in ICT-enhance teaching category. These teachers have all experienced SchoolNet-facilitated training offered through both the Intel and Microsoft Education programmes. Warren and Mabore have participated in the Adobe Youth Voices International programme. The eventual winner in this category was <b>Anita van Vuuren</b>, Universitas Primary School in the Free State and who had also benefitted from SchoolNet’s programmes. Anita was a finalist in the 2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum Awards which SchoolNet always helps to coordinate, and she has attended innovation workshops. as well as the peer coaching programme both offered through SchoolNet </span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 426px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="190"></td> <td valign="top" width="228"></td> <td valign="top" width="6"></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tF1NonFusIOr1o7gL97xL9O-Whsby8CYXZIyayXdm-CopWiPiQ6xo-rxWDgyA6IGl-Vu4yTEjxPcaKbjD_kVx_CNyzeJy4nATQYJeJHkIHHuDl6Ey_dHBVRzUW820RdH3xcyC_Wo2YM/s1600-h/image%25255B19%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXHgS05iprcgY4GbGy18puX79TJmj45_9MUgGAfKr-z_ow6BpUk7mSAr8F7GTf3F8IoWnUf5f2TJwAT6vFIoS648cZvesyxWqaIKMZ4LOBd0HzfOZQtulzJtcuvVQM4dyGiyegNWPG68/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="201" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3_uCLDUO-llAyKiGwIAUm1IctHf-J5j6DaYlHrdF8MK2-7XkSijUVI7qLu3A6XwRCSZs1bbf0osh5fcIjGbNvDUCrBmmUMpE88cdcYj01VJgVacOomAQ94oI7jUFMxNIjF_Ygx-JCNo/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNIlWE8I3AVGspuhbKf3hABrcNhkj5A5j_SgqQaQtIX7s50GIwF45JazUP9PSkSJZ91vCbGarntk5BrCtbzdtPLNHyUYGV9sp0MXCKY09436i7omVVS49cRj97a-4yg2mx7XYjDmOgpi8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="238" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGP7kNGzOyWHIFSkPzhxsO4pS8nhtXDCKWxuBYV62U1tkQW8ceylXpjjz1-rzWvXFTw7CwFypmzEwyvmjKid3oSD24bg0y3KmCjXXdlTUZ3OfUWY3RBT1zH_KNbgkKrT6u9ummeLeQOhs/s1600-h/image%25255B18%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoz6MbD96rEiSPY48O1GPjCdAakYonDYkCQgz_AB0brqahw5jehjTAZyFUCyldAy-YwpDGQgFjjZUC-1Dg6TwjG6Z_4PLQ2Yyz6VDplqtb-n8miG1OXJeedfgYKne1amgCrKjcK1u8Zwc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="129" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUsvPW1IKyATIv2eouMnW_31usA3LuHTtz_BJmxKHs6AMfKW9eFkZ5MQpGhyphenhyphenHnN4yQJEGn4f52TIlipGE_bbItgh__M7yEkao7cSecpVjCj_CKAhJOulIOhLI5NpIDGgpEDSTmrQAfzg/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ypeulwqxac_oJTpO5TnnEbkhkmu2DyGLTeu3F-ITI8iriTt0CjfVoky9DhFJNWtix9IenlUBEEvrV2JhzXgZRMm93ZXLI8PdrNNsp4aeE4yqDWCKRqPSyr3Y5fJ1eieG_7oWRKP7Z-Q/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="329" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr <b>Derick Petersen</b>, of ImiZama Yethu Secondary School won the category Excellence in Secondary School Leadership. (Mr Petersen  received a tablet from a project that SchoolNet embarked on with the Western Cape Department of Education in December 2012.) He is pictured here with omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhKANDE-nslf2pCdlQWGcgwKcpIn3iCDAYVSfQfsEhkKpUHL4mjvlYRrX7FUIJTj07xF18u8rPE-xmwnR03aIkn5ptCX9vNZ-r2eZUXgcdie8NodYLCDRODKb8ROsli01QDE_l9vRU6E/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to all South African Educators who work towards creating young free thinking individuals. We salute you</span><br /><br /></div>

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Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet and Omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet The National Teachers Awards was held at the Gallagher Estate C...

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width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE QATARI PROJECT: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“DESTROYING SAUDI ARABIA”?</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The events of the ARAB Spring and the variables that have happened in IRAQ after invading it in 2003, which led to the fall of the dictatorial rulers, caused authoritarian and political vacuum, over which the States whose governments still hold the reins of power in it have competed and thus have turned into powerful States.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR is one of these States that is small but yet have great ambitions and is supported and backed by the UNITED STATES and ISRAEL. In fact, the Gulf area have become an area where both influence and power between different parties compete, including QATAR and SAUDI ARABIA, and the region in turn have changed into a yard for political conflicts. It became clear that the Arab policy in general is based on the special interests of the rulers and never respects the freedom of speech or conscience, especially that what is happening seemingly is quite different from what is hidden between lines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is clear that QATAR’S policy aims at strengthening its authority and role in the region, most likely at the expense of the SAUDI role. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HOW MUCH AND TO WHOM IS QATAR PAYING?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the same time, the SYRIAN-QATARI relations became strained over QATAR’S plan to hit SYRIA in order to get a foothold in the Gulf and then to destroy and divide other countries so that to become a superpower among small fragmented States in the region. QATAR is so far supporting the SYRIAN armed opposition financially and in the media to expose the role of the SAUDI government after dropping SYRIA. Therefore, the basic question remains: How much and to whom is QATAR paying? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE ANSWER: WAHHABI ASSOCIATIONS AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The answer is clear: Sheikha Mozah’s association has paid about 200 million dollars to Wahhabi associations as (“Ansar al-Sunnah” in EGYPT) and 100 million dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood. Additionally, the Emir of QATAR has built a huge mosque in the name of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR has also implemented a military plan aiming at transferring the U.S. military bases from SAUDI ARABIA to its territories and by doing so it imposed itself on the Western world as a regional and Arab country. This became a reason to intimidate SAUDI ARABIA materially and politically, since the kingdom was the place where GULF STATES and other countries agree seemed to show consensus among each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STRIVING FOR BECOMING THE REGIONAL POWER PLAYER </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWpGk5lmkDAOYtpN82i8i-SL2ooh-nfJ0wUy1FWMT1Ht9z2Fghl8-cLRHHL3xDFPtUbOeQ2yNCdNW5ptBG-t1dYA4M7eHumcWvpMYu4Dl1i8Cu_l1_xhyR9tt8wKTT2yLc9UzaO28WLb9/s1600/map_qatar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWpGk5lmkDAOYtpN82i8i-SL2ooh-nfJ0wUy1FWMT1Ht9z2Fghl8-cLRHHL3xDFPtUbOeQ2yNCdNW5ptBG-t1dYA4M7eHumcWvpMYu4Dl1i8Cu_l1_xhyR9tt8wKTT2yLc9UzaO28WLb9/s320/map_qatar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus, a new ideology against the ruling family in SAUDI ARABIA would be promoted between the army and the SAUDI people in order to destabilize and destroy the SAUDI State politically and economically, so that QATAR will raise its political stakes in the region.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the same time, the situation in SAUDI ARABIA is not as calm as usual, and the so-called “SAUDI stability” seems to slowly crumble, for the oil-rich eastern Shiite areas are boiling and the sounds of explosions are heard in the areas very close to the capital Riyadh. Additionally, the descendants of the ancient Arab families in the Hijaz and Asir, west of the country, do still remember the role they have played earlier in the life of the Arabian Peninsula, of which they have been deprived in the era of Al-Saud. QATAR the small, stable, and rich country, will use this opportunity to take advantages over contradictions and divisions Arab state have been showcasing for centuries, thus displaying QATAR as the regional player to reckon with. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Via ABNA an Iranian viewpoint</span></div>

SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR

THE QATARI PROJECT:  “DESTROYING SAUDI ARABIA”? The events of the ARAB Spring and the variables that have happened in IRAQ after invading i...

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SAUDI ARABIAN PROTESTS

<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3q7Jcc6eFhYV-IjkirD0Wa9OX7NHrMziYbD_hDlYbIA7x2BeV3zncRJFA3aXkgDeQpU1ic6wJyNA58lukFG1kneIt6f5as-JS-gHe8aVNNpWfbNHwKXN-U4w0VIKV7aydKGygXZNJfJym/s1600/_62090607_saudi_mecca_g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3q7Jcc6eFhYV-IjkirD0Wa9OX7NHrMziYbD_hDlYbIA7x2BeV3zncRJFA3aXkgDeQpU1ic6wJyNA58lukFG1kneIt6f5as-JS-gHe8aVNNpWfbNHwKXN-U4w0VIKV7aydKGygXZNJfJym/s400/_62090607_saudi_mecca_g.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">  </span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In January 2012, Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE QUIET WAR IN SAUDI ARABIA</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/food-for-thought_19.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/food-for-thought_19.html</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While western powers have been happy to use SAUDI ARABIA as an ally to ratchet up the pressure on Assad's beleaguered regime in SYRIA, it has not caught a whiff of the silent crackdown occurring within the kingdom. Since late November the protest movement which was largely snuffed out last spring has returned to the streets in force, largely centered on the oil rich and largely SHIA Eastern Province. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SAUDIS DISCRIMINATION AND MISTREATMENT AGAINST SHIA IN ITS EASTERN PROVINCE COULD BACKFIRE</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br />The SAUDI response was both brutal and predictable. Security forces shot and killed three protesters and wounded many more over several days of crackdowns in the eastern city of QATIF. Clashes continued throughout December as demonstrators battled security forces who routinely utilized live ammunition. In a series of retaliatory raids on the homes and districts of protest sympathizers hundreds were arrested and wounded. The killings along with the continued discrimination and mistreatment of the SHIA of the Eastern Province has formed the basis of the current protest movement - a protest movement that has suffered heavily like its neighbour in BAHRAIN, but with little in the way of a headline.<br /><br />Today, while attention was focused on the Strait of Hormuz, on SYRIA, and on the rising tensions in BAHRAIN, SAUDI security forces launched an assault on the city of AWAMIYAH killing at least one and wounding half a dozen more. Eye witnesses have stated that soldiers on trucks opened fire on demonstrators, hitting many as they fled. The attack bears all the hallmarks of a planned operation with electricity being cut to the area prior to the assault. The area at the time of writing is apparently still under military lock-down and reflects a state of siege with clashes continuing to occur and gunfire being heard.<br /><br />This attack was almost certainly condoned by the royal family and comes on the heels of a series of indictments against demonstrators and high profile invectives against the protest movement. Despite this attack and others like it, the rumblings and tremors of protest and crackdown show no sign of abatement. Indeed in the past few months they have once again reared their head in the south west in NAJRAN and JAZAN, compounded with protests over women’s rights in RIYADH and BURAYDAH.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaE1NfYhAKzHBIusbnI_FKpOGzArj7QH-LUpIh00D7aLsa8a_sGkbSNpuz_aShKdoZAijiLKiGClfMFOdFfrjBn0SVLjIIfK-6SLzduwhPxN8gFl5-KzEUxAbaNYOYW_ea6nqIyYAxTb9/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaE1NfYhAKzHBIusbnI_FKpOGzArj7QH-LUpIh00D7aLsa8a_sGkbSNpuz_aShKdoZAijiLKiGClfMFOdFfrjBn0SVLjIIfK-6SLzduwhPxN8gFl5-KzEUxAbaNYOYW_ea6nqIyYAxTb9/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STORM CLOUDS LOOMING OVER THE OIL KINGDOM</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br /><br />These protests bear all the hallmarks of a movement which could coalesce and burst anew from the ashes of the disjointed and largely suppressed protests of last spring. They also come at an extremely troubling time for the kingdom. The death of Crown Prince Sultan highlighted the geriatric character of the upper echelons of the ruling family, and the potential uncertainty and disquiet surrounding the issue of succession.<br /><br />Meanwhile, continuing tensions in the STRAIT OF HORMUZ and rising furor on the streets of BAHRAIN open up the risk of unrest spreading to the kingdom in a domino effect. Indeed the extremely aggressive SAUDI position on BAHRAIN and the continued quartering of troops in the tiny island monarchy has a direct relationship to their fears of domestic instability. The possibility of SAUDI SHIA rallying on behalf of their co-religionists in BAHRAIN, or vice versa is a looming threat that the SAUDIS are taking great pains to neutralize.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PROTESTS COULD HAVE TUMULTUOUS IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL ENERGY MARKET</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Though the protests currently centre on a single province, the Eastern Province is home to the majority of SAUDI energy reserves, terminals, and processing facilities. Disruption and upheaval in this province has a disproportionate impact on SAUDI ARABIA. A protracted and visible uprising would not only weaken the SAUDI government internally but could have a tumultuous impact on the global energy market. This is all the more reason for not only the media, but for western governments to begin taking an active interest in the ongoing street conflict.<br /><br />SAUDI rulers certainly understand the threat posed by the protesters and the risk of an expanding movement: their actions are a testament to that fact. So why is the world’s media apparently incapable of recognizing the same thing? Arab media has been noticeably silent, with the two largest ARAB MEDIA entities the Saudi-owned AL-ARABIYA and the QATARI-owned AL-JAZEERA having said almost nothing. However there is little excuse for western media. SAUDI ARABIA is probably AMERICA'S most important ARAB ally, the world’s most important single energy node, and one of the most influential countries in the region.<br />It's also experiencing its worst domestic upheavals since its rebellions of the early 1980's. Taken in a vacuum this is a significant news story. When set against the context of the unfolding drama in the GULF and the wider contours of the ARAB SPRING, it is incredible.<br /><br />The past year was a bad one for SAUDI ARABIA: the coming year augurs to be even worse. The time has come to slice through the veil SAUDI ARABIA has kept around its crackdown and recognize that the Arab Spring at least in limited form has hit the kingdom. What comes next is difficult to say, but with the rapidity of change that the Arab Spring has introduced us to, it would be wise to pay close attention to the warning signs as they appear. It is entirely possible that we will see a very, very, warm spring in SAUDI ARABIA.</span></div>

SAUDI ARABIAN PROTESTS

  In January 2012, Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote: THE QUIET WAR IN SAUDI ARABIA http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/...

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Elin Nordegren dating billionaire Chris Cline not Tiger Woods

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Elin Nordegren hits the beach in Miami after announcing split from Jamie Dingman." src="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/76/41/76410e72692bde2dd84253d6dcf9a81b.jpg?itok=Hq-QHgRD" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">Just as everyone assumed that <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/tiger-woods" style="color: #3e72a7;">Tiger Woods</a>and <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/elin-nordegren" style="color: #3e72a7;">Elin Nordegren</a> had patched things up and revived their romance, a Tuesday (March 12) piece by <a href="http://www.showbizspy.com/article/257936/elin-nordegren-is-dating-a-53-year-old-billionaire.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3e72a7; font-weight: bold;">ShowBizSpy</a> refutes all previous reports.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">According to <a href="http://www.showbizspy.com/article/257936/elin-nordegren-is-dating-a-53-year-old-billionaire.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3e72a7; font-weight: bold;">SBS</a>, Nordegren, 33, is not <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/tiger-woods-and-elin-nordegren-back-together-for-trial-marriage" style="color: #3e72a7; font-weight: bold;">back in Tiger's arms</a> like everyone suspects, and is in fact dating 54-year-old billionaire, <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/chris-cline/articles" style="color: #3e72a7;">Chris Cline</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">The coal magnate and the former Swedish model live in Florida's exclusive North Palm Beach oceanfront community of Seminole Landing, which is where they reportedly met.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">"Elin and Chris have been dating since the holidays," said a source.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">So, who is Elin Nordegren's new love interest, Christopher Cline?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">Born in Beckley, W.Va., Cline is a coal-mining entrepreneur and a philanthropist. He's the owner of Foresight Reserves LP and is regarded as the "New King Coal."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">According to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/christopher-cline/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3e72a7; font-weight: bold;">Forbes</a>, Cline is worth an estimated $1.2 billion, which makes him the magazine's billionaire #1175, #377 in United States, and #360 in Forbes 400.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">He's been married twice, with his most recent one ending in 2000, and is the proud father of four: two sons and two daughters.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">Cline currently resides in his 33-thousand-square-foot home in Palm Beach, Fla., which happens to be just around the corner from Nordegren's rebuilt mansion.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em;">What do you think about the rumored "Elin Nordegren new boyfriend"?</div></div>

Chris Cline Elin Nordegren dating billionaire Chris Cline not Tiger Woods

Just as everyone assumed that  Tiger Woods and  Elin Nordegren  had patched things up and revived their romance, a Tuesday (March 12) piece ...

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FACTBOX-Soccer-Reaction to Barcelona's Champions League comeback

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="first" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Italy Soccer Champions League" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DUg4qH49Wx_d6Jj4IVqQrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD01MTI7cT04NTt3PTM4MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/Sports/AP_Soccer/201302191326483667896-p2.jpg" /></div><div class="first" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; padding: 0px;">BARCELONA, March 13 (Reuters) - Following is a selection of reactions to Barcelona's 4-0 Champions League victory against AC Milan on Tuesday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">World Player of the Year Lionel Messi scored twice as Barca became the first team to overturn a two-goal first-leg deficit without the benefit of an away goal to advance to the last eight 4-2 on aggregate:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*Gary Lineker, former England and Barcelona forward turned soccer pundit, on Twitter: "Delighted Barca got through. It was a victory against all odds and a triumph for football.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Lionel Messi is so utterly brilliant it is beyond belief. I saw a lot of (Diego) Maradona and played against him. Wonderful though he was, Messi is better and so much more consistent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Lionel not only has the genius of Diego but is also as prolific a goalscorer as we have ever seen.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Only genuine argument is the World Cup. Messi will be the same age next year as Maradona was in 1986. I sense his moment will come."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*Marco Materazzi, former Inter Milan and Italy defender, on Twitter: "Habemus Messi! Where did they create this alien? He's not human."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*Madrid-based sports daily Marca:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Leo, hero again. Messi responded to those who doubted him with a brilliant performance. The most important game of the season came around and Leo Messi did not fail. He had a bad night at the San Siro ... like the rest of his team mates, but last night, with the whole team fired up, Messi was decisive."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*German weekly magazine Der Spiegel: "Gala performance. Barcelona magic sees them through to the quarter-finals. With its 4-0 triumph Barcelona gave an impressive response to critics."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*German sports daily Kicker: "Messi turns Milan ice cold. Barcelona remain among the Champions League favourites. They did not let themselves get derailed after their setback in Milan and are back in the last eight - thank Messi."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*French sports daily L'Equipe: "No, Barca are not dead. They are more alive than ever. The team that were written off after losing 2-0 at Milan three weeks ago are back to their best."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*Britain's Daily Mirror: "Monster Messi just two good."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*Britain's Daily Telegraph: "Messi stages greatest of European escapes. Of all the statements of their footballing greatness, and that of the unreal Lionel Messi, perhaps this was Barcelona's most emphatic in the modern era."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">*Britain's Daily Mail: "The word of the night was 'remontada'. It means comeback. And this was the madre of all remontadas. In Lionel Messi, Barcelona have a player as great as any to have walked the earth. Up there with Pele, with Diego Maradona, with Johan Cruyff or Zinedine Zidane." (Reporting by Iain Rogers; additional reporting by Karolos Grohmann in Berlin, Julien Pretot in Paris and Alan Baldwin in London; editing by Amlan Chakraborty)</div></div>

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BARCELONA, March 13 (Reuters) - Following is a selection of reactions to Barcelona's 4-0 Champions League victory against AC Milan on Tu...

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Ray Lewis joins ESPN

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Hi-res-161460139_crop_exact" src="http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/000/761/415/hi-res-161460139_crop_exact.jpg?w=650&h=440&q=85" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Two-time Defensive Player of the Year </span><a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/964/ray-lewis" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ray Lewis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> officially joined ESPN on Wednesday, one month after helping the </span><a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/bal/baltimore-ravens" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Baltimore Ravens</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> win the Super Bowl in his final NFL game.</span><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The linebacker, who retired after 17 seasons, will appear on "Monday Night Countdown," "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "SportsCenter."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He also will travel to the site of each week's "Monday Night Football" game, where he will offer analysis for ESPN's shows and have a weekly segment on ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike in the Morning."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"ESPN is such a big part of how fans watch and experience sports, especially the NFL, so I'm excited to join their team," Lewis said in a statement. "I'm ready to bring the same level of passion to this next phase of my life as I brought to the field during my years as a player. I can't wait to work with my new teammates, many of whom I've already known for years."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lewis helped the Ravens win two Super Bowl titles during his career and was selected to 12 Pro Bowls, fifth on the all-time list and most by a linebacker. He was named The Associated Press' Defensive Player of the Year in 2000 and 2003 and retired as the Ravens' franchise leader in several categories, including tackles (2,643), fumble recoveries (31) and games played (228).</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Ray is a tremendous addition to our NFL roster and he will have an immediate impact on our coverage," said John Wildhack, ESPN executive vice president, production. "One of the most accomplished players in NFL history, fans will be drawn to his knowledge, experience and, of course, the passion he always exudes for the game."</div></div>

Ray Lewis joins ESPN Ray Lewis joins ESPN

Two-time Defensive Player of the Year  Ray Lewis  officially joined ESPN on Wednesday, one month after helping the  Baltimore Ravens  win th...

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New Round of Voting Fails to Name a Pope

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/03/13/world/europe/20130314-VATICAN-slide-GR0Z/20130314-VATICAN-slide-GR0Z-articleLarge.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">VATICAN CITY — Black smoke billowed from a makeshift copper chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signaling that the 115 cardinals of the Catholic Church eligible to vote for a new pope had again failed to muster majority support for a successor to</span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benedict_xvi/index.html" style="background-color: white; color: #666699; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;" title="Times Topic Page">Benedict XVI</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> and that balloting would continue until they do.</span><br /><br /><div class="columnGroup first" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 7px; width: auto !important;"><div class="articleBody" style="margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"><div data-key="AfvAfv" data-num="1" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">A first vote ended inconclusively on Tuesday, and the inky black smoke a day later indicated continuing divisions in two subsequent ballots on Wednesday among the cardinals over what kind of pope they want to confront the pressing, sometimes conflicting, demands for change after years of scandal.</div><div data-key="ImooPP" data-num="2" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“It’s more or less what we expected,” the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #666699;" title="More articles about the Roman Catholic Church.">Vatican</a> spokesman, said of the first three ballots. In relatively recent times, he said. only Pope Pius XII, whose papacy spanned World War II and lasted from 1939 to 1958, had been chosen on the third ballot.</div><div data-key="VisVis" data-num="3" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Voting is set to continue on Wednesday afternoon and onward — with up to two rounds each morning and afternoon — until the cardinals reach a two-thirds majority of 77 votes.</div><div data-key="AtpTbo" data-num="4" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">At that point, white smoke will billow forth, telling the world’s one billion-plus Catholics that they have a new leader to take on the myriad challenges confronting their church. The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica will peal over the huge piazza of the same name to announce the election of Benedict’s successor.</div><div data-key="IwwOoa" data-num="5" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In what was scheduled as the first full day of balloting since the conclave began on Tuesday, the prelates celebrated a morning Mass in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace before voting in the Sistine Chapel under 16th-century frescoes by Michelangelo. Outside, on a rainy morning, pilgrims and sightseers sheltered by umbrellas began assembling early in case word of a new pope came sooner rather than later, hoping that the signal from the burning ballot papers would be unequivocal.</div><div data-key="TcsSct" data-num="6" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The crowd soon thickened, with many people staring toward the chimney with its simple cover or looking at it on huge television screens. Some closed their eyes and clasped their hands around rosaries in prayer.</div><div data-key="AtlBoT" data-num="7" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">At the last papal election, in 2005, the color was indeterminate in an early round, prompting confusion. But, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the smoke was unmistakably black.</div><div data-key="ThtBgs" data-num="8" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Technology helped, too. By the time the first smoke emerged, at 7:41 p.m. on Tuesday, it was dark outside. But giant screens in St. Peter’s Square showed the smokestack clearly.</div><div data-key="TVhBdf" data-num="9" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The Vatican has given details of how the black smoke is generated, saying that, since 2005, a secondary device alongside the traditional ballot-burning stove generates colored smoke from different chemical compounds. Both devices feed into stovepipes that join up as a single smokestack on the Sistine Chapel roof.</div><div data-key="FbsWsh" data-num="10" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">For black smoke, the Vatican Information Service said, the compound blends potassium perchlorate, anthracene and sulfur. White smoke heralding a new pope comes from a mixture of potassium chlorate, lactose and rosin, “a natural amber resin obtained from conifers.”</div><div data-key="BtbBtb" data-num="11" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Before 2005, the black smoke was “obtained by using smoke black or pitch and the white smoke by using wet straw,” the Vatican said.</div><div data-key="TioNfh" data-num="12" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The inconclusive outcome of the early balloting had been widely predicted. No front-runner had emerged in the same way as in 2005, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to become Benedict XVI on the fourth round of voting.</div><div data-key="FdbFdb" data-num="13" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">For decades before his election, the average number of voting rounds was higher, around seven, while no conclave since the early 20th century has lasted more than five days.</div><div data-key="BrlBrl" data-num="14" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Benedict <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/world/europe/pope-benedict-xvi-says-he-will-retire.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: #666699;" title="Times Topic Page">resigned last month</a>, citing failing powers and infirmity, the first pope to do so in six centuries.</div><div data-key="TptBii" data-num="15" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">That paved the way for the voting in the Sistine Chapel, whose secrecy shields the cardinals’ deliberations from outside scrutiny. But it is also designed to protect cardinals from earthly influence as they seek divine guidance.</div><div data-key="TisTis" data-num="16" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Those influences seemed potentially acute on Wednesday for at least one cardinal elector inside the Sistine Chapel — Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, the former archbishop of Los Angeles.</div><div data-key="EatEat" data-num="17" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Even as the prelates weighed their options late Tuesday, news reports from California said the archdiocese, the cardinal himself and an ex-priest had reach a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0313-archdiocese-settlement-20130313,0,1962671.story" style="color: #666699;" title="Los Angeles Times story">settlement</a> of almost $10 million in four child sexual abuse cases, according to the victims’ lawyers.</div><div data-key="TaoTao" data-num="18" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The agreement offered eloquent testimony to the sexual, financial mismanagement and other crises facing Benedict’s successor.</div><div data-key="CMwCMw" data-num="19" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Cardinal Mahony, who retired less than two years ago as the leader of the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States, was removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, last month as the church complied with a court order to release thousands of pages of internal documents that show how the cardinal shielded priests who sexually abused children.</div><div data-key="HpcTto" data-num="20" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">His presence contrasted with the fate of <a href="https://connect.nytco.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=3dd3dd74c9024401894797d3e563d19a&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftopics.nytimes.com%2ftop%2fnews%2finternational%2fcountriesandterritories%2funitedkingdom%2findex.html%3finline%3dnyt%2Dgeo" style="color: #666699;" title="More news and information about United Kingdom.">Britain</a>’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who announced his resignation last month after being accused of “inappropriate acts” with priests and said he would not attend the conclave. The timing of his announcement — a day after news reports of alleged abuse appeared in Britain — suggested that the Vatican had encouraged the cardinal to stay away.</div><div data-key="WaaWaa" data-num="21" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">When asked about criticism of some cardinals by advocates for the victims of clerical sex abuse, Father Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the group SNAP — Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests — was taking advantage of the attention focused on the conclave to reap publicity.</div><div data-key="PiCTca" data-num="22" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Prelates including Cardinal Mahony “have given their answers, have given their explanations,” he said. “These cardinals are people we should esteem” and they have the “right to enter the conclave,” he said.</div><div data-key="FLaAft" data-num="23" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Father Lombardi also said there were no plans for Benedict to attend the inaugural Mass of the new pope. As for the potential date of that ceremony, he said Tuesday — the feast day of St. Joseph — would be a “good hypothesis.”</div><nyt_author_id><div class="authorIdentification" style="margin-bottom: 2.8em;"><div data-key="DJWDJW" data-num="24" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.467em;">Daniel J. Wakin reported from Vatican City, and Alan Cowell from London.</div><div><br /></div></div></nyt_author_id><nyt_correction_bottom><div class="articleCorrection" style="margin-bottom: 2.8em;"></div></nyt_correction_bottom><nyt_update_bottom></nyt_update_bottom></div></div><div class="columnGroup " style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 7px; width: auto !important;"><div class="articleFooter" style="margin-bottom: 16px;"></div></div><div class="columnGroup " style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 7px; width: auto !important;"><div class="shareTools shareToolsThemeClassic shareToolsThemeClassicHorizontal articleShareToolsBottom shareToolsInstance" data-description="Black smoke billowed again from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, meaning a new pope had not been elected by the cardinals in the latest balloting." data-shares="facebook|,twitter|,google|,save,email,showall|Share" data-title="New Round of Voting Fails to Name a Pope" data-url="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/world/europe/vatican-pope-selection-conclave.html"><div class="shareToolsBox"><ul class="shareToolsList" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding-left: 0px;"><li class="shareToolsItem shareToolsItemFacebook noLabel firstItem" data-share="facebook" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0.45em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"></li></ul></div></div></div></div>

Pope New Round of Voting Fails to Name a Pope

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Intel sponsors professional development for teachers at Thembelihle Primary

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><br />Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet</em><br />Thembelihle Primary School is a small school, recently established by the Methodist Church in Howick for the benefit of learners from severely disadvantaged backgrounds. The school has expanded gradually from just being a play school and with the help of some overseas funding has built additional classroom and employed new teachers. It is now in the process of registering as an independent school with the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education. The majority of learners receive sponsorship of their school fees; otherwise they would not be able to attend any school. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an attempt to foster innovation and excellence in teaching the school intends to equip the teachers with laptops and data projectors. The aim of this intervention is not only to provide technology and skills for teachers but also to allow teachers to access valuable lesson resources and to enhance their teaching in the classroom. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmS544ClXelc0Qv4HDhCL2OKmfRuSpxuApP5jsJlmHqZ1EL2KVTbF5aDuIcUOytwkbdQpBuOW7TyE7EGJHXfS4FLSHVp_GROtqpmfFtsRb3ZolpVaoD7EZ23wF7mmgnArnahUnACnDbo/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXyJYzyI6LWtIGrY65sJ_ieVMwINnHlbSDKYPWB1HRdzFguRrq6Olg0jypVtPWoT7qdn-U1dbouW_rpqsmP4UGFd4-RKWUJAPeJy4pZ9x7oG0-jRpE92z-XG0sHVEsjufADou6t0wseg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Learners at Thembelihle School</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting in the 2013 second term Hlengiwe Mfeka from SchoolNet South Africa will conduct professional development training for all the teachers that will be sponsored by Intel. Teachers will study the Intel Teach Getting Started course initially and then progress to the Intel Teach Elements courses for project based approaches. </span><br /><br /></div>

Intel Intel sponsors professional development for teachers at Thembelihle Primary

Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet Thembelihle Primary School is a small school, recently established by the Methodist Church in Ho...

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Beware of over automation: an endless ifttt loop gone wrong

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