Cycles and Suffragettes 5th November

A great event is taking place in Leicester on 5th November. Talks, flash mobs and a cycling tour of the sufragette movement...get dressed up in period clothing, learn and celebrate the wonderful combination of bicycles and feminism!

The way to look feminine in the ring...

Is this the bell for women's boxing to be taken seriously?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/15452596.stm

Paula talks about the change in IAAF rules and the declassification of her World Record in long interview.

Thanks to Nike, her main sponsor, Paula has a platform to discuss the rule-change for women marathon runners. Nike have created a campaign called 'HISTORY STANDS' to challenge the IAAF wiping out several course and world records set by women. Check out the long interview in this YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPEMdFV7xYo&feature=related

Paula Radcliffe says IAAF rule on records 'penalises women'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oct/13/paula-radcliffe-iaaf-records-women

CFA: Sport Studies Symposium

Call for Abstracts
1st Annual Rockford College Sports Studies Symposium:
An interdisciplinary conference on the study of Sport.
Date: April 28, 2012
Rockford College
5050 E. State. St.
Rockford, IL 61108

Whether one is a participant, a casual spectator, a die-hard fan, or a critic, sport, in all its varieties and forms, play a significant role in the lives of most people through out the world. Sports and competitions have long been a part of human civilization and raise a wide range of important philosophical and ethical issues.
This symposium will bring together a panel of scholars to discuss philosophical themes or issues arising in the study of Sport. The focus of the panel will depend, in part, on the submitted abstracts. Each presenter on a panel will have 20 minutes for their presentation. This will be followed by 10-15 minutes for panelists to respond to each other and then 15 minutes or more for audience Q&A. There will also be a panel on the Rhetoric of Sport.

Abstract Submission:
Submissions are welcome on any philosophical theme or issue arising in the study of Sport. Abstract should be 300-500 words. Send via email (as PDF) to sklein_at_rockford_dot_edu.
Deadline: January 6th, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: February 1st, 2012
If you have any questions, please contact Shawn Klein (Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department) at 815-226-4115 or sklein_at_rockford_dot_edu or Michael Perry (Assistant Professor, English Department) at 815-226-4098 or mperry_at_rockford_dot_edu.

Cedera, Sharapova Mundur

Kamis, 27/10/2011 07:59

Istanbul - Maria Sharapova memutuskan mundur dari WTA Tour Championship. Cedera pergelangan kaki memaksa petenis putri asal Rusia itu tak menuntaskan keikutsertaannya.

Keputusan mundur diambil Sharapova usai dia dikalahkan Li Na pada pertandingan kedua. Itu menjadi kekalahan kedua petenis nomor dua dunia itu setelah sehari sebelumnya ditundukkan Samantha Stosur.

"Pergelangan kaki saya tidak pulih seperti yang diharapkan setelah saya menuntaskan pertandingan pertama," sahut Sharapova seperti diberitakan Reuters.

"Pembengkakannya semakin buruk. Itu membatasi pergerakan saya, dan saya tak ingin mengambil risiko dengan hal itu, terutama di akhir musim karena saya justru punya waktu untuk memulihkan dibanding memaksakan diri dan mengakibatkan cedera lain," lanjut Sharapova.

Keputusan mundur yang diambil Sharapova membuat Caroline Wozniacki dipastikan akan mempertahankan posisi sebagai
petenis nomor satu dunia di akhir tahun ini. Sebelum WTA Tour Championship dimulai Sharapova menjadi satu-satunya petenis yang punya kesempatan menggusur petenis Denmark itu dari posisi teratas.

Woznicaki sendiri mengalami kekalahan di pertandingan keduanya di Grup Merah yang tuntas pada Kamis (27/10/2011) dinihari WIB tadi. Dia tunduk atas Vera Zvonareva dalam laga tiga set 6-2, 4-6 dan 6-3.

Sebagai pengganti Sharapova telah ditunjuk Marion Bartoli.

Dre@ming Post______

sumber : detik

Hormati Simoncelli, Tim Gresini Pasti ke Valencia

Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011 | 08:59

Tim Gresini Honda memberikan kepastian akan pergi ke Valencia, tempat berlangsungnya seri terakhir MotoGP 2011. Namun, mereka belum memutuskan apakah ikut kompetisi dalam event yang akan berlangsung pada 4-6 November tersebut.

Pada hari Senin (24/10/2011), bos tim Fausto Gresini sudah memberikan pernyataan kepada pers Italia bahwa mereka tidak akan pergi ke Valencia. Hal ini lantaran timnya masih dalam suasana dukacita akibat tewasnya pebalap andalan mereka, Marco Simoncelli, dalam kecelakaan maut saat balapan di Sirkuit Sepang, Malaysia, Minggu (23/10/2011).

"Hal yang pasti bahwa timku tidak akan berpartisipasi pada balapan mendatang di Valencia, dan saat program
tes setelah balapan," ujar Gresini kepada Corriere dello Sport.

Namun, sekarang Gresini membuat keputusan baru bahwa timnya akan pergi ke Valencia. Rencana yang pasti dilaksanakan di Valencia adalah, sepanjang akhir pekan tersebut mereka akan memperlihatkan nomor 58 di garasi Honda sebagai bentuk penghormatan terhadap Simoncelli, sang pemilik nomor tersebut.

Sementara untuk balapan, tim belum memutuskan apakah ikut atau tidak. Jika ikut, mereka juga belum menunjuk apakah Hiroshi Aoyama yang tampil ataukah para pebalap Moto2, Michele Pirro dan Yuki Takahashi.

Dre@ming Post______

sumber : kompas

Death to the scoreboard.

"Death to the scoreboard."
Dean Hood, Eastern football's head coach, spoke that phrase to his players earlier this week in practice.
It's an odd phrase when it first rolls off the tongue.
But when taken into context the way Hood preached it to his team, those four words make perfect sense.
And maybe, just maybe, Hood is on to something.
"I told the guys if I had one wish, it would be to put that scoreboard to death," Hood said in an Ohio Valley Conference teleconference Tuesday. "Because that really shouldn't be the standard. The standard should be excellence. I think it's a much better thing to live by than the scoreboard because that will help them more in life, as a dad, as a husband, as an employee and as a neighbor."
What?

For more, see this link: http://www.easternprogress.com/sports/real-life-lessons-from-the-gridiron-1.2644728#.TqW0uHIbUaA

Hope, Socccer, and Haiti

A nice story at CNN.com.

Sense or sexism?

Can male pacemakers really make a woman run faster? The IAAF certainly think so....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/14992147.stm

Green Flight Challenge A Teachable Moment

Posting from Istanbul, Turkey where I'm on vacation with my family, but just couldn't wait another day to talk a bit about what most everybody in aviation's been talking about these last several days: the CAFE Green Flight Challenge (GFC).
History was made when the Pipistrel Taurus Electro G4 twin-fuselage electric-powered aircraft carried four adults, around 1000 lbs. of batteries, one electric motor with a big prop, and a lot of engineering and piloting savvy to victory in the GFC.  They earned themselves $1.35 million in the process.  Huge and well-deserved congratulations to Pipistrel!

The winnah!  Pipistrel's Taurus Electro G4.  Photo courtesy Phpistrel

But for my money, the deeper story is not just that they flew off with the biggest aviation dollar prize ever, or even that they accomplished the task of flying 200 miles on one battery charge while also averaging more than 100 mph for the entire flight, or that they did it while "burning" the equivalent of 1 gallon of gas per passenger, or four gallons total...but...that they accomplished all that yet consumed the equivalent of around 1/2 gallon of gas per passenger!
Looked at another way, they took off with full "tanks", and landed with just a bit less than the electricity equivalent of half a tank of gas.
And get this: The eGenius entry had similar economy numbers, though it used a very different design approach - a conventional motorglider planform - albeit with a tail mounted motor to afford a larger, more efficient prop.  It flew with two, not four, people onboard.
So here we have two teams with different aerodynamic approaches that both met the challenge, and met it easily.
And as soon as they release numbers on the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Eco Eagle, I'll post them too, as the ERAU team also flew but as a demonstration flight - they were disqualified from competition for a couple technicalities.
But here's the deal, restated from my last post: at least two, and possibly three of the entrants didn't just meet the task that many thought wouldn't be met: they killed it!
Here are the official numbers: e- Genius (which won the second place prize of $120,000 as well as the Lindbergh LEAP award of $10,000 for quietest aircraft) tallied 375.8 passenger miles per gallon.
And the G-4?  An astounding 403.5 passenger miles per gallon!
That is nothing less than stunning.
Electric flight is here.

Up to the Challenge: eGenius takes flight.  photo courtesy NASA

Yes, battery tech needs to keep advancing, and dramatically, to bring e-flight into the mainstream GA hangar.  But the GFC proves that the page has been turned.  From here on in, it's a race to market affordable, practical electric airplanes.
As Eric Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy's grandson, said recently, the first company to make a viable electric trainer will usher in the new age.  The G4 accomplished its victory on around $7 worth of electricity.  Imagine the rental/training cost of an e-trainer being $125...or $130 "wet".  Kinda funny.
Dr. Calin Gologan, the Romanian designer of the PC Aero Elektra One, which won the LEAP award this year at Oshkosh, believes battery efficiency (expressed as energy density) will improve by 11% per year.  In 9 years, that's double what we have today.  Anybody want to bet it won't happen faster than that?
And one more time, kudos and bravissimos to Pipistrel, the eGenius team, the Embry Riddle team which converted a Stemme motorglider, to Jim Lee, who entered the contest with a conventionally powered Phoenix motorglider (I'm looking forward to seeing his numbers too), and all the others who originally entered but couldn't quite make it to the starting line.
They all have their place in history, and all mark the beginning days of a tide that will change aviation forever.
Look for my just-submitted story on electric flight in the upcoming December issue of Plane & Pilot, which hits the stands in Nov.
Meanwhile, check out this video of the event's highlights.

Conference Call For Papers

CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES

Call for Papers

Sport, Gender and Media

10^th March 2012

CFP deadline: 12^th December 2011

We invite all postgraduate and early career researchers interested in gendered aspects of sport to a one-day interdisciplinary conference.

This is a growing academic field which addresses important questions about equality, public health, representation, participation, citizenship and ‘fair play.’ With the Olympics in the UK, and a likely glut of related journalism, 2012 is an opportune time to investigate the framing of media relationships between sport and gender.

The conference will be interdisciplinary, and welcomes contributions from many fields in order to foster understanding of, and promote relationships between a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We also intend to celebrate the achievements of women in sport, and this conference will be part of the marking International Women’s Day.

The aims of this event are to:

·         Demonstrate and enrich the depth of study in this field.

·         Bring together academics, activists and others working on sport, gender and media.

The focus of the Conference is the relationship of media to sport and gender; however, papers addressing sports issues which underpin and inform this field will be considered. Topics might consider any of the following (but not limited to this list):

·         Sports journalism and gender equality

·         Gendered participation in elite sport

·         National identity through team sport

·         Media representations of race in sport

·         Sport in the age of the internet

·         Mixed gender or coed sport

·         Sports fans and fandom

·         History of sport media

·         Sports stars and sporting heroes

·         Sports institutions, national sports programmes in schools and government intervention

·         Obesity, health and sport

·         Media’s categorization of women’s sport: Authentic sports pages, or weight loss/lifestyle magazine.

·         Media and the sport binary

·         Non-mainstream sport

Abstracts for papers, posters or roundtable discussion should be 300 words and emailed to womensportmedia@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday 12^th December with ‘Sport, Gender and Media abstract’ in the subject heading. For more information, including notification dates and cost of attendance, please visit our website at sportgendermedia.blogspot.com