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DJ Mona-Lisa (How to Deal With A Heartache) LIVE Radio Broadcast

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School changes rules so female kicker can be Homecoming Princess

A feel good post for a change of pace - view video @ http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/School-changes-homecoming-rules-so-female-kicker?urn=highschool-wp9010

When Henry County (Ga.) Community Christian School was naming its homecoming court, Katie Davidson knew she wouldn't be a part of it. After all, the sophomore place kicker wouldn't even be eligible; Community Christian school rules dictate that all potential female members of the homecoming court wear a dress to the annual homecoming game.

Davidson couldn't fulfill that court demand, for a good reason: She's the starting place kicker on the Community Christian 8-man (8-person?) football team. Yet when Davidson was nominated for the court, the school thought so much of the sophomore that it changed its official homecoming regulations to allow female court members to wear dresses … or football uniforms.

The change paid off, as the place kicker -- who is the only place kicker in school history, after joining the program as an eighth grader for its initial season in 2009 -- was elected as the school's new sophomore princess.

"They actually had to change the girls requirement for what they wear," Davidson told 11ALive News, Atlanta's NBC affiliate. "They had to add football uniform. Yeah, I was [pretty proud of that]."

The honor was just part of the sophomore's steady rise to stardom. Around the small Atlanta-area school, Davidson is reportedly an idol of girls across its kindergarten to high school senior spectrum. She's gained similar respect from her teammates, who once became enforcers after an opposing player laid her out in a kickoff coverage.

Yet for one night, Davidson also had to worry about being a princess, a role which she filled with a smile and a sense of humor, all without taking her eye off her primary job (she converted four extra points in the first half before walking on to the field as
princess at halftime).

"I think the heels would have been a little risky, you know," Davidson told 11ALive News. "I could have gotten hurt, so I decided to play it safe with cleats."

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‘Your Human and Spiritual Purpose’

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DJ Mona-Lisa (No Money-Living By Faith)

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DJ Mona-Lisa (Superstars Are Trash)

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DJ Mona-Lisa (Empowerment For Women Considering Abortion)

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How Barefoot College is empowering women through peer to peer learning and technology

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy has found a better way to solve poverty: train women as engineers so they can transform their villages.

Early one morning in March 2010, Susanna Adelheid Huis left her home in the village of Uis Tsaurob in the central plateau of Namibia. Her family scratches a living as smallholders, here on the one per cent of her homeland that is forgiving enough to support subsistence agriculture. She took a last look at her house -- one of 12 in the settlement -- and thought of her husband, five children (the youngest of whom was four) and two grandchildren whom she wouldn't see for six months. She would miss the coming cool months, returning in September when it was beginning to get hot and dust would be thick in the air.

As Huis neared the capital, Windhoek, 300km away, she was already missing her family. But she was excited too: "It was the first time I ever flew," the 49-year-old with a ready smile later recalls. Her trip would take her through another three airports -- Johannesburg, Delhi and Jaipur. She was embarking on an adventure she hadn't been entirely convinced about when the idea had been put to her several months before by a tall, distinguished-looking Indian man who had shown up in Uis Tsaurob one day. He had travelled 8,000km with a proposal for the local people: would they like to send some women from the village to his college in India to study for six months? But why, they had asked, should they travel so far? What would they learn there?

The man replied that he would like to teach them to be engineers. The villagers talked among themselves and eventually decided that they would send three women.

One of them was Huis. The tall Indian man was Sanjit "Bunker" Roy, a social activist, educator and the founder of Barefoot College, an organisation based in Tilonia -- a small village two hours' drive west of Jaipur through the arid farmland of Rajasthan -- that aims to help the estimated 41 per cent of the Indian population who live below the international poverty line. Roy's model -- educating local people through peer-to-peer learning -- is transformational in that it relies on the passing on of traditional skills and knowledge rather than an emphasis on outside educators bringing new ideas and influences. Local people are trained as doctors, teachers, engineers, architects, designers, mechanics, communicators and accountants and they use simple technology in innovative and disruptive ways: mobile phones are set to work monitoring water quality through an online dataset, solar-powered cookers are constructed to break dependence on wood or costly kerosene. Some lessons at the college are recorded and uploaded to the internet. There is no hierarchy: everyone eats sitting on the floor and no one receives a salary of more than $150 per month. Importantly, there is financial transparency. Staff bank accounts are published, as are company finances.

"The model has taken into account the pace at which people think, the culture, which is respected, and the capacity -- the infinite capacity -- of the community to adjust to, apply and to disseminate ideas," says Roy, 65, in a calm baritone as he sits cross-legged on a rug beneath a rotating fan in his simple office on the Barefoot campus. He wears a loose red shirt, or kurta, with white pyjama bottoms. His glasses hang from a chain around his neck. "That's what scalability is all about. It's a model that people understand, it's not complicated. It respects the skills that people have rather than discarding them or replacing them."

Roy has disrupted the model that many NGOs and well-endowed foundations promote in the developing world, namely a top-down approach led by outside, often governmental, institutions. Critics argue that this methodology doesn't offer long-term sustainable growth and isn't scalable. Roy is among them.

"You have a graveyard of successful failures everywhere in the world with this top-down solution that has not worked. With foreign expertise... they don't know the culture and they don't know what's happening in the countries." His voice intensifies. "There is a growing anger We have to look for alternatives. It has to be bottom-up, it has to be indigenous, it has to develop solutions from the ground up, and it has to be both community based and community managed."

There are now 24 colleges inspired by the Barefoot model in India. Since 2004, Roy has brought women from 15 African nations as well as Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bolivia to train at the camp as solar engineers. He hopes soon to bring women from Palestine. The college says it has trained 15,000 women in skills including solar engineering, healthcare, water testing and social activism, and that as a result, around 500,000 people have been provided with basic services such as healthcare, drinking water and education. On the Barefoot campus you can meet women who, only six months earlier, were day labourers and are now practising dentistry, women who formed a collective to manufacture solar ovens, illiterate farmers now overseeing engineering projects, and girls who attend Barefoot night school because they work in the fields during the day when state schools are open. Roy estimates that, in India, the Barefoot solar-electrification programme saves two million litres of kerosene every year.

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Mayan Winds : premium coffee on a mission

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DJ Mona-Lisa (Crossing The Enemy Line)

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DJ Mona-Lisa (The Price I Paid For Fame)

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DJ Mona-Lisa (If Loving You Is Wrong)

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How To Achieve Self Love In 7 Easy Steps

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Meditation 101

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Breast Health Initiative: A New Way to Ensure Wellness

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Tales from the Missionary Hut: A school in a box

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Who I Am Today

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By Empowering women our World will help diminish overpopulation.

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Marriage Equality - One New York Senators Point of View

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PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics Supports The United Nations Through the Sale of PeaceKeeper Lip Gloss

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