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Steelers quarterback in favour of NFL game in Dublin to honor Dan Rooney?s legacy (IrishCentral)
Ben Roethlisberger backs plans as he attends Independence Day party in capital
ByPATRICK COUNIHAN,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Friday, July 5, 2013, 7:19 AM
Updated Friday, July 5, 2013, 7:48 AM
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Steeler's Dan Roethlisberger honored former US ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney at Dublin July 4th celebrations
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarter-back Ben Roethlisberger led the July 4th celebrations in Dublin then welcomed any opportunity to return for an NFL game at Croke Park.
Roethlisberger was one of 2,300 people who enjoyed the annual US Independence Day celebrations at the US ambassador?s residence in the Phoenix Park.
He spoke to local sports media before the event when he said he would be ?delighted? to play an NFL game at the home of the GAA as a tribute to Steelers owner Dan Rooney, a former US ambassador to Ireland
Roethlisberger said: ?I would like it for him. That?s how much he means to me and I think everyone on our team would say that.
?Even if guys said they would never want to play in London, 100 percent of the guys on our team would say they would play in Dublin for Mr Rooney. I?d do it for him
?People always ask me what makes Pittsburgh special, why the tradition, why the history, why the most Lombardis? To me it starts at the top, that?s him, Art his son and his family.
?When he was in Pittsburgh, we saw him every day. When guys come to our team, and they sit down, they always ask are you owners in here all the time, they don?t ever see their owner.
?For us to see our owner every day whether out at practice, just working out and them saying hi to you, sit down and have lunch with you.?
Rooney joined Roethlisberger at the annual garden party hosted by charg? d?affaires John Hennessey-Niland who told the Irish Times: ?We have thousands of people here today, we wish we could have more.
?We welcome our sponsors, people who work in the Irish-American community, representatives of business, the arts, culture.
?Everyone that we have a relationship with, we want to invite them to have an opportunity to be part of our special day.?
The paper reports that guests were met by parachuters who descended onto an American-style football field with all the trimmings: football posts, giant television screens for live coverage and playbacks, and bleachers.
An Irish-American Flag football game followed between the Dublin 8s and the Phoenix Park Pirates comprised of embassy diplomats and Marines, local Gaelic football, rugby and soccer players.
The event is designed to celebrate the relationship and economic ties between the US and Ireland.
Hennessey-Niland added: ?It?s a great way to celebrate freedom, it?s a great way to celebrate independence. It?s a great way to celebrate the relationship between two great countries.?
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Solar Impulse airplane gets set for a clean, big finish in the Big Apple
Innovation 
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP
Andre Borschberg, one of two pilots of the Solar Impulse plane, poses for a portrait in the cockpit of the purely solar-powered plane at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum?s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va.
WASHINGTON ? In noisy, energetic New York City, the pilots of a spindly plane that looks more toy than jet hope to grab attention in a surprising way: by being silent and consuming little energy.
This revolutionary solar-powered plane is about to end a slow and symbolic journey across America by quietly buzzing the Statue of Liberty and landing in a city whose buildings often obscure the power-giving sun. The plane's top speed of 45 mph (73 kilometers per hour) is so pokey, it would earn honks on the New Jersey Turnpike.
The plane is called Solar Impulse. And it leaves from Washington on a commuter-like hop planned for Saturday, depending on the weather. It will take hours for the journey and offers none of the most basic comforts of flying.
But that's OK. The aircraft's creators say its purpose really has little to do with flying.
Green pioneers
They view themselves as green pioneers ? promoting lighter materials, solar-powered batteries, and conservation as sexy and adventurous. Theirs is the high-flying equivalent of the Tesla electric sports car. They want people to feel a thrill while saving the planet. Think Charles Lindbergh meets Rachel Carson.
And if there's one person who knows about adventure and what it means to Earth, it's Bertrand Piccard.
He's one of the two pilots who take turns flying Solar Impulse. His grandfather was the first man to see the curve of the Earth as a pioneering high-altitude balloon flier more than 80 years ago. His father more than half a century ago first took a submarine to the deepest and most inaccessible ocean trench on Earth.
And now, in the 21st century, outside the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum annex, not too far from a retired space shuttle, Piccard says there's no truly new place on Earth for explorers to pioneer. At 55, he's tried.
He already was the first person to fly around the world non-stop in a balloon, but that wasn't really enough. So Piccard found a way to explore by looking inward and acting globally.
"It's an exploration of new ways of thinking," said Piccard, who is also a psychiatrist. "It's important to understand that pioneering is not only what you do. It's how you think. It's a state of mind more than action."
For him, there was no better cause than clean technology.
"After a conquest of the planet, the 21st Century should be about improving the quality of life," Piccard said. And the lightweight beanpole that's called Solar Impulse "is something spectacular in order to capture the attention of the people. If you make a solar bicycle to drive, nobody would care. If you make a solar plane, everybody cares. Everybody wants to see it.'"
Ready to go round the world
Europe saw it first with a test flight from Switzerland and Spain to Morocco last year. This year's U.S. flight is another trial run that's really preparation for a 2015 around-the-world trip with an upgraded version of the plane. Solar Impulse has been to San Francisco, Phoenix, Dallas, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Washington. All that's left is New York's JFK Airport, and Piccard talked about having to wait his turn to land with all the big jets.
"We're flying the most extraordinary airplane in the world," Piccard said.
Although it's promoted as solar-powered, what really pushes the envelope with this plane is its miserly energy efficiency, said Solar Impulse CEO Andre Borschberg, the plane's other pilot.
Parts of its wings are three times lighter than paper. Its one-person cockpit is beyond tiny. Borschberg lowers himself gingerly into it for a television camera, grimaces, and practically wears the plane, it is so snug on him.
Most of the 11,000 solar cells are on the super-long wings that seem to stretch as far as a jumbo jet's. It weighs about the size of a small car, and soars at 30,000 feet with what is essentially the power of a small motorized scooter. When it landed at Dulles International Airport in suburban Washington after midnight on June 15, its wings were lit with 16 LED lights that used less power than two 100-watt bulbs.
"We can use much less energy than we use today without the sacrifice," Borschberg said. "And that's really important."
'Clean,' not 'green'
People won't sacrifice to save energy or the planet, but if they are smart they don't have to, Borschberg said. That's why he and Piccard pointedly talk about "clean technologies" not "green technologies." They think "green" has the image of sacrifice.
The only sacrifice with the plane is staying up in the air alone for 20 hours in such a small space.
And even then, the two pilots don't call it a sacrifice. Borschberg said after a while it feels homey and enveloping and it's hard to get out of the cocoon. Sitting for eight hours in an economy class seat on a commercial airplane is cramped; doing what you love by sitting three times longer in this plane isn't, Piccard added.
The flights are long, because here's another thing about Solar Impulse: It's slow. That has meant a lot of 4 a.m. take-offs in the dark and landings well after midnight. But Borschberg, who will pilot the last leg from Washington to New York, is hoping for a daylight approach to New York City so he can get a photo opportunity with the Statue of Liberty.
Borschberg and Piccard both say this is not about clean-energy planes for the future. What they're doing is more likely to improve energy efficiency on the ground, in cars and homes, agrees Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz who met with the pair to talk up future energy a couple days after they landed at Dulles.
Still, questions of practicality come up.
'Clearly a stunt'
"It's clearly a stunt," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. "And it's clearly an attention-grabbing stunt. The idea that you could fly an airplane powered by the sun is kind of hard to believe. So doing it is an impressive stunt, I suppose."
But these types of gimmicks do pay off at times, Reilly said.
It will pay off more than promoting solar and other renewable energy technologies as economic stimulus, which is what happened four years ago, said University of Colorado science policy professor Roger Pielke Jr. He compared it to giant prizes that encourage private companies to go into space or build robot-driven cars, which are proving successful.
"I don't think it's just a stunt," Pielke said. "The idea is that you're pushing boundaries and you're putting on shows for people and achieving milestones."
This, Pielke said, is "an essential part of technological innovation. It gives people an opportunity to attempt what previously was thought of as impossible."
? 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Venezuela's President Maduro offers asylum to Edward Snowden
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The president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro announced that he has decided to offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the whistle blower and former US intelligence contractor who is believed to be still stranded in a transit area of a Moscow airport.
The Venezuelan president said on Friday:
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The president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro announced that he has decided to offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the whistle blower and former US intelligence contractor who is believed to be still stranded in a transit area of a Moscow airport.
The Venezuelan president said on Friday:
"As head of state of the Boliviarian republic of Venezuela, I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young Snowden ... to protect this young man from the persecution launched by the most powerful empire in the world".Maduro made the offer during a speech marking the anniversary of Venezuela's independence.
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The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, also said that it could accept an asylum request from Snowden "if circumstances permit". That could be a very big "if". Ortega said:"We are an open country, respectful of the right of asylum, and it's clear that if circumstances permit, we would gladly receive Snowden and give him asylum in Nicaragua,"Ortega is an ally of Venezuela and often a critic of US policies as well. Ecuador was originally thought to be a likely refuge for Snowden since Julian Assange is already a refugee in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. However, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, seems to have decided that it might be better for him not to further antagonize the US. Joe Biden had phoned Correa and requested that he not grant Snowden asylum. Snowden is said to have applied for asylum in 20 countries at least. Al Jazeera reports that he has been turned down by 21 countries already. The US has exerted a great deal of pressure upon countries not to grant him asylum. The US is regarded as behind the denial of permission for the Bolivian presidential plane to fly through the air space of several European countries including France. The plane was forced to land in Austria where it was reportedly searched and held for almost half a day. The next problem for Snowden is how to get from Moscow to Venezuela without his plane being forced to land so that he can be grabbed and sent to the US. If only Mossad were on his side!
Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/353792
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Friday, July 5, 2013
EBX restructuring to leave $1.7 billion debt, $2 billion in assets: source
RIO DE JANEIRO ? ?The restructuring of Brazil's EBX industrial conglomerate will likely leave its controlling shareholder Eike Batista with about $1.7 billion of debt and up to $2 billion of assets, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Thursday.
The sale of assets in EBX companies such as utility MPX Energia SA
The restructuring will also cut his debt with Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala by more than 25 percent to between $1.6 billion and $1.7 billion, the source, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said.
EBX Group was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Jeb Blount in Rio de Janeiro and Cesar Bianconi and Todd Benson in Sao Paulo; Editing by Dale Hudson)
Source: http://feeds.foxbusiness.com/~r/foxbusiness/latest/~3/wGSICXzmBag/
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Early childhood education advocate Dr. Ramona Paul dies | Say ...
EARLY EDUCATION ADVOCATE DIES: Dr. Ramona Paul ? pictured here with schoolchildren from Edmond, OK in 2009 ? was one of the nation?s best known advocates of early childhood education. She passed away this week. Photo by John Jernigan, Oklahoma Today
By Patrick B. McGuigan | CapitolBeatOK
OKLAHOMA CITY ? Ramona Paul, former assistant superintendent of public instruction and the leading advocate for expansion of early childhood education in the Sooner State, died last weekend.
According to a press release from the state Department of Education, Dr. Paul suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Idaho. News of her passing moved quickly around education circles and among state policy leaders this week.
With a couple of brief stops elsewhere, Paul worked at the state Department of Education from 1988 until her retirement in 2011. Her advocacy of expanded early childhood education made her a national figure; the state was applauded for its policy developments over the decades of her public service. Rutgers University analysts and others touted as models the programs she pioneered during her work at the agency.
She served as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University, Texas Women?s University in Denton, the University of Alabama, and Purdue University. Dr. Paul earned her Ph.D. from Purdue and was also a graduate assistant during her time at Iowa State University.
In 2009, she was named Oklahoman of the Year by Oklahoma Today magazine. She was the first educator and first state government employee to earn that designation. In an interview with CapitolBeatOK, former Superintendent Sandy Garrett said Dr. Paul ?was like a sister to me, and an invaluable member of our team at the Department of Education for many years.?
Randy Krehbiel of The Tulsa World wrote a lengthy feature profile story in the January/February 2010 edition of Oklahoma Today.
Then-editor?Louisa McCune-Elmore commented, ?To say that she has created a better future for Oklahoma is an understatement, and we believe telling her story is a step toward creating the best schools in our nation.?
Dr. Paul was closely allied with former Superintendent Garrett, and often credited Gov. Brad Henry and his wife Kim for their support of her work. Tulsa businessman and philanthropist George Kaiser provided private support for expansion of the early childhood education models she supported.
State Rep. Joe Dorman, D-Rush Springs, commented on her death in a statement sent to CapitolBeatOK: ?Dr. Ramona Paul was widely recognized as the leader in early childhood reforms for Oklahoma and is one of the key reasons our state has one of the top ranks in the United States for early childhood education. Her efforts and compassion for students were key components to the many successes we have seen in recent years with these programs.
?Ramona was a good friend to many educators and policymakers and will be greatly missed. I send my condolences to her husband and other family members.?
Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi, in a statement from her office, commented, ?I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Paul. She is the pioneer who made early childhood education possible for the state of Oklahoma. We want to recognize all of her tremendous contributions to the profession and to students and families throughout our state.?
The mother of three sons (Steven, Stuart and Jerry), Dr. Ramona Paul also had four stepchildren with her husband of many years, Homer.
Dr. Paul?s services will be held next Tuesday (July 9) at Oklahoma City?s Westminster Presbyterian Church.
You may contact Patrick B. McGuigan at?Patrick@capitolbeatok.com?and follow us on Twitter: @capitolbeatok.
The post Early childhood education advocate Dr. Ramona Paul dies appeared first on Watchdog.org.
Source: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/early-childhood-education-advocate-dr-ramona-paul-dies/
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The iMore team is on App.net, here's how to follow us!
We're talking social all week this week on Talk Mobile, and one of the newest pretenders to the throne is App.net. It's a more interesting proposition than just a mere social network, positioning itself as a platform and inviting developers to build on it. It's also not free, which from the outset may have put some folks off trying it out. There are now invite-only, free, limited accounts to get people through the door and trying it out. And of course, the iMore team, well some of the iMore team, is on App.net as well, so here's how to follow us!
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