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Eclipse Foundation: Raw and Uncut
Ian Skerrett (Eclipse Foundation ), Wayne Beaton (Eclipse Foundation )
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Ever wonder what is the role of the Eclipse Foundation? Curious if the Foundation can help you or your company better leverage Eclipse? This presentation will expose the Foundation for what it really is: a community service provider. It will present the good and the bad about interacting with the Foundation. Attendees will gain insight into how they too can abuse and flatter the Foundation staff for their own benefit.
Wayne works for the Eclipse Foundation where he fills the dual roles of Director of Committer Community and Evangelist. He spends his days working with the many Eclipse projects, learning about Eclipse technology, and making sure that everybody knows just how cool it all really is. Wayne is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, Project Lead for the Examples Project, co-Project Lead for the SOC Project, and an advisor for osbootcamp. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader.


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Since helping inaugurate intercollegiate competition more than 150 years ago, Harvard has become synonymous with excellence in athletics and academics. The Crimson women's basketball team boasts one of the most successful programs in the Ivy League and in the Northeast. Harvard has 11 Ivy League titles and seven postseason appearances including six at the NCAA tournament.
Harvard is universally regarded as the top academic institution in America and also has the highest graduation rate (approximately 98-percent).
Harvard students are regular individuals who come from all corners of the country and the world. With Harvard's diverse student body and metropolitan environment, Black Enterprise ranks Harvard as one of the nation's top colleges and universities for African-Americans.
Athletics Program
Harvard fields the largest Division I athletic program in America with 41 Division I varsity sports. Sports Illustrated placed Harvard in the top 45 of "America's Best Division I Sports Colleges," the only Ivy League school to appear in the top 50.
Boston is the unrivaled "College Town, USA" with more colleges and universities than any metropolitan area in the country. The Sporting News dubbed it the nation's best sports town in 2002, '04 and '05.
Harvard women's basketball completed its 37th season as a varsity sport in 2010-11. Harvard has won 11 Ivy League championships since 1986 and has taken the title three times in the last six years and four times in the last eight. In 2006-07 and 2007-08, the Crimson won back-to-back crowns for the fourth time in program history. The 2008-09 squad captured the program's 500th win Jan. 30, 2009 against Penn becoming the first school in Boston and Ivy League team to accomplish that feat.
Kathy Delaney-Smith
The third coach in program history, Kathy Delaney-Smith finished her 29th season at the helm of the Crimson in 2010-11. Delaney-Smith, the all-time winningest Ivy League women's basketball coach, owns an overall coaching record of 455-317, which includes a 278-120 mark in Ivy League play. Included are eight 20-win seasons, 11 Ivy titles, a .500-or-better record in 21 of the last 22 years and trips to six of the last 14 NCAA tournaments.
Harvard Was the First...
Harvard was the first Ivy League basketball team on either the men's or women's side to go undefeated during conference play. The Crimson accomplished that feat in 1996-97 and repeated it in 2002-03. Allison Feaster '98 was the first Ivy player — male or female — to sweep the major Ivy League honors when she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1996 and Player of the Year in 1996, '97 and '98. Harvard also has the distinction of being the first and only basketball program — men or women — to upset a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson recorded the incredible upset March 14, 1998, defeating No. 1 Stanford in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

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Women's Conference is Saturday. We are in the home stretch of preparations, people. Loosely translated, that means this week has been C-R-A-Z-Y busy. Because there's nothing quite like brilliant ideas at the last minute, am I right? It's a great theme this year — carrying with you the light of Christ. Actually, the theme is to do with everything about light including shining, shine on, carry the light of Christ, beacon of light, enlighten, lighten your load, lighten up, lighthouse, rekindle your light, and on and on! So many great aspects and tangents one could ponder. Hopefully, one of these will inspire YOU! All background images are either from my personal collection, graphics library or media.lds.org.
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What I Designed Today: Simplify Inspirational Quote Meme
I miss designing inspirational memes. Mostly because I love quotes and pretty pictures — but also because back when I was designing one a day for RunHaven, I got pretty good at churning them out quickly. Now, I barely have time to ponder inspirational quotes which is why, perhaps, this one is so perfect for me! {#ironic} More to come on this 'simplify' theme, as these quotes are collected from the Regional Stake Conference held this past weekend. If you have any additional quotes in your notes that you'd like to add to my collection, please share them with me!
What I Designed Today: Inspirational Quote – Life is the Ultimate Sport
I created this motivational quote because I love the quote. It's true! Running has taught me so much about life. It's a great quote from Mark Lauren's 2012 book entitled "Body by You: The You Are Your Own Gym Guide to Total Women's Fitness".
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5 Things I Have Learnt About Myself Since Blogging
1. The parenting blogging community is ace! When you walk into a new mother and toddler group for the first time it can be awkward, intimidating, cliquey, I'm not a fan of it to be honest. Coming into the parenting blogging community couldn't be more different. Everyone is so friendly, supportive and happy to help.
2. There is a lot more to blogging than meets the eye. There are layouts, stats, labels, tags, scheduling, linkys – so much I didn't know about but I am loving learning about it all.
3. I forgot how much I love to write. I wrote alot when I was younger; mainly poetry probably about my newest crush but it all fazed out as work, housework, family duties came into play but I've rediscovered my love for it. The fact I can write about work, housework and family makes it even better.
4. It is addictive. I have often found myself with my notebook writing ideas and draft posts. Its really good to have something to focus my mind on as I suffer from post-natal anxiety. It also means I can write in my Cath Kidson notebook which I have been saving for something useful!
5. I think I want to become a 'proper' blogger. An ambition it seems I have only just discovered. I've read some great blogs this month and find some of them incredibly inspiring. I hope that with practice I can improve my writing style and attract more people to my blog.
Thank you to everyone that has helped me so far especially all those who have followed me on Twitter and given me little bits of encouragement. This has been a big step for me, especially to write about my anxiety so I am super pleased with how well received it has been.


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- 464
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2007-03-01
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"This book will make a major impact on the study, and especially the teaching, of Arabic philosophy. A major difficulty with this field has been the lack of any adequate textbook of sources... Reisman and McGinnis not only provide here a rich selection of texts that could be the basis for even a full-year course on Arabic thought, but also manage to translate several important works for the first time; they also include some standards that would probably be missed were they not here. It will no doubt become the standard anthology used in courses on Arabic philosophy, and I will use it this way myself. The team of McGinnis and Reisman is an ideal one... All in all, this project is to be greeted with immense enthusiasm." -- Peter Adamson, King's College London. "This is a very fine, well conceived collection of philosophical materials that display the intellectual rigor, power, and insights of the thinkers of the Arabic tradition... The Introduction is written at a level appropriate for undergraduates and graduate students... Teachers not expert in the area will find it valuable as a guide for their students... far superior to anything currently available. It is suitable for adoption not only for courses in Arabic philosophy but also for any general courses in medieval philosophy." -- Richard C Taylor, Marquette University. This fine piece of linguistic work brings to non-Arabists some representative samplings from dozens of the most seminal philosophers that the Arabic-speaking world has produced. Most of the outstanding minds are present, from traditionalists to the most speculative thinkers. . . . [T]his anthology succeeds in offering, in an English translation that is both accessible to readers and faithful to the writers, a comprehensive range of outlooks and perspectives highlighting almost half a millennium (9th-13th centuries CE). . . . The broad range covered is a tribute to the anthologists' judgment and skills. --S.P. Blackburn, CHOICE The anthology produced by Jon McGinnis and David Reisman is a welcome development because it makes accessible a range of key texts covering the spread of philosophical concern in the "classical" period of philosophy in Islam. As they are both Arabists and medievalists with a philosophical training, they have successfully rendered philosophical Arabic into a sophisticated English idiom accessible to students in Islamic thought, medieval studies, and the history of philosophy. In a growing field of study with a paucity of available primary sources in translation, this anthology is greatly welcome and will no doubt become the standard text used in many medieval philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and religious studies courses. The translations are fluent, sophisticated, and well supported with endnotes on the Arabic textual emendations and footnotes referring to the wider ancient and medieval context. A useful bibliography is appended, as is a quite excellent glossary of terms, Arabic-English and vice versa. --Sajjad H. Rizvi, University of Exeter
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Jon McGinnis is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Missouri St. Louis. David C. Reisman is Associate Professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Introduction. Al-Kindi. Ar-Razi. Al-Farabi. The Baghdad Peripatetics: Abu Bishr Matta; Yahya ibn Adi; Abu Sulayman as-Sijistani. Ibn Sina. Al-Ghazali. Ibn Bajja. Ibn Tufayl. Ibn Rushd. As-Suhrawardi. Index.


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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.
But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.
Like Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.
For a long time, my mother wasn't dead yet. Mine could have been a more tragic story. My father could have given in to the bottle or the needle or a woman and left my brother and me to care for ourselves—or worse, in the care of New York City Children's Services, where, my father said, there was seldom a happy ending. But this didn't happen. I know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory.
If we had had jazz, would we have survived differently? If we had known our story was a blues with a refrain running through it, would we have lifted our heads, said to each other, This is memory again and again until the living made sense? Where would we be now if we had known there was a melody to our madness? Because even though Sylvia, Angela, Gigi, and I came together like a jazz improv—half notes tentatively moving toward one another until the ensemble found its footing and the music felt like it had always been playing—we didn't have jazz to know this was who we were. We had the Top 40 music of the 1970s trying to tell our story. It never quite figured us out.
The summer I turned fifteen, my father sent me to a woman he had found through his fellow Nation of Islam brothers. An educated sister, he said, who I could talk to. By then, I was barely speaking. Where words had once flowed easily, I was suddenly silent, breath snatched from me, replaced by a melancholy my family couldn't understand.
Sister Sonja was a thin woman, her brown face all angles beneath a black hijab. So this is who the therapist became to me—the woman with the hijab, fingers tapered, dark eyes questioning. By then, maybe it was too late.
Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to understand the depth and breadth of human suffering would be enough to pull me outside of my own.
Somehow, my brother and I grew up motherless yet halfway whole. My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.
Twenty years have passed since my childhood. This morning, we buried my father. My brother and I stood shoulder to shoulder at the gravesite, willows weeping down around us, nearly bare-branched against the snow. The brothers and sisters from mosque surrounding us. In the silver light of the morning, my brother reached for and found my gloved hand.
Afterward, at a diner in Linden, New Jersey, my brother pulled off his black coat. Beneath it, he wore a black turtleneck and black wool pants. The black kufi his wife had knitted for him stopped just above his brow.
The diner smelled of coffee and bread and bleach. A neon sign flickered EAT HERE NOW in bright green, dusty silver tinsel draping below it. I had spent Christmas Day at the hospital, my father moaning for pain medication, the nurses too slow in responding.
A waitress brought my brother more hot water for his mint tea. I picked at my eggs and lukewarm home fries, having eaten the bacon slowly to tease my brother.
You hanging in, Big Sis? he asked, his deep voice breaking up a bit.
I'm good.
Still whole?
Still whole.
Still eating pork and all the other Devil's food, I see.
Everything but the grunt.
We laughed, the joke an old one from the afternoons I had snuck off with my girls to the bodega around the corner for the foods I was forbidden to eat at home and the bits of bacon still on my plate.
You still could come stay with me and Alafia you know. Bedrest isn't contagious.
I'm good at the apartment, I said. Lots to be done there. All his stuff to go through . . . Alafia doing okay?
She'll be all right. Doctors talk like if she stands up, the baby's gonna just drop right out of her. It's all good. Baby'll be fine.
I started my way into the world two days before July ended but didn't arrive until August. When my mother, crazed from her long labor, asked what day it was, my father said, It's August. It's August now. Shhh, Honey Baby, he whispered. August is here.
You scared? I asked my brother, reaching across the table to touch his hand, remembering suddenly a photo we had back in SweetGrove, him a new baby on my lap, me a small girl, smiling proudly into the camera.
A little. But I know with Allah all things are possible.
We were quiet. Old white couples surrounded us, sipping coffee and staring off. In the back somewhere, I could hear men speaking Spanish and laughing.
I'm too young to be someone's auntie.
You're gonna be too old to be somebody's mama if you don't get busy. My brother grinned. No judgment.
No judgment is a lie.
Just saying it's time to stop studying the dead and hook up with a living brother. I know a guy.
Don't even.
I tried not to think about the return to my father's apartment alone, the deep relief and fear that came with death. There were clothes to be donated, old food to throw out, pictures to pack away. For what? For whom?
In India, the Hindu people burn the dead and spread the ashes on the Ganges. The Caviteño people near Bali bury their dead in tree trunks. Our father had asked to be buried. Beside his lowered casket, a hill of dark and light brown dirt waited. We had not stayed to watch it get shoveled on top of him. It was hard not to think of him suddenly waking against the soft, invisible satin like the hundreds of people who had been buried in deep comas only to wake beneath the earth in terror.
You gonna stay in the States for a minute?
A minute, I said. I'll be back for the baby though. You know I wouldn't miss that.
As a child, I had not known the word anthropology or that there was a thing called Ivy League. I had not known that you could spend your days on planes, moving through the world, studying death, your whole life before this life an unanswered question . . . finally answered. I had seen death in Indonesia and Korea. Death in Mauritania and Mongolia. I had watched the people of Madagascar exhume the muslin-wrapped bones of their ancestors, spray them with perfume, and ask those who had already passed to the next place for their stories, prayers, blessings. I had been home a month watching my father die. Death didn't frighten me. Not now. Not anymore. But Brooklyn felt like a stone in my throat.
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Yesterday as I washing my daughter's hair in the shower, I remembered my grandmother, and her own part in this very same activity. I never showered with her but I remember clearly how she turned hair washing time into an exercise of play. My grandmother was an adept at this slight of hand. She could sprinkle a little magic on all of the tine minutia of every day life. When it came time to wash my hair, which was long for most of my childhood, I threw a fit. Like most six year olds, I was not thrilled at the idea of being clean or at least not thrilled at the process of becoming clean. I would cry but never tantrum. One didn't tantrum around my Grams. But it was okay because she always knew what to do.
Patting her perfectly coiffed, blond hair, she say "Now Ginger, don't you want the "treatment?" My grams was (and is) one classy lady, and I longed to be as fancy as she was even in my tomboy haze of tree climbing, bike riding, scraped knees and random bruises. The first time she suggested this I was suspicious at what this treatment might include.But after the first time, I looked forward to my "treatments." You see a treatment was a homemade beauty salon.
A chair would be pulled up the sink, and I would have a towel draped around my clothes. My Grams would have me lean back and then with warm water coming from the sprayer, she begin to wash my hair. I can still feel the warm water soaking in while my Grams chatted to me about what I did that day or the day before. I'd began to relax as she massaged shampoo into my scalp soothed by the fact I could trust her not to soap in my eyes. And she didn't stop at the hair wash. She'd wash my face with her special Avon products which always smelled like her: flowery but not too overpowering. Sometimes she'd even dab on some lip gloss. She would gently comb my hair, telling me how lovely I was. On days when she had some times she'd blow dry me out too. Afterwards we would sip coffee--mine heavy on cream and sugar and light on coffee--with a little snack. I would always be quiet and still those days so as not to mess up my do. Sitting on the couch, drawing or looking at books, I'd feel encapsulated in the magic that my grandmother wove around me.


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I feel as if lately, I've been hiding behind a routine. I've been looking for more and more "things" to occupy my time with. My interactions with most people, save a select few, feel superficial, forced. When asked how I'm doing, I've resorted to simple answers like "fine", or "I'm hangin' in there." Someone I don't know very well the other night made a remark sugggesting that I shouldn't still be grieving, and despite the fact that I know they were wrong and didn't know me or my relationship with Nanny well enough to make such a remark, part of me felt like they were right. Like I should start moving on. A good friend calls this complicated grief.
I'm scared to move on, because moving on sounds so much like letting go, and that is the one thing I refuse to do. If I let go of Nanny, I would let go of so much of me that nothing would be left. I already feel the presence of a gaping hole inside myself so deeply that, most days, I just want to curl up. Instead, I hide myself within outling Wesley sermons, reading books, watching TV, or most recently, opting to try Weight Watchers to get back down to a healthy weight. Nothing like having family members at the funeral tell me that, what I lost in hair I gained in belly fat.
Saturday, we went to the post office where I reluctantly turned in the life insurance claims paperwork for the policies Nanny made out for me. I literally waited until the moment before we stepped up to the counter to seal the envelopes. As I did so, my hands trembled and my heart rate spiked. I thought I had felt pain before, but nothing has ever hurt like this, so deeply and relentlessly. Nothing has ever made me more aware of my own mortality or the temporal nature of this existence.
Any time I see a TV show or a movie with a car accident, I almost lose it. I think about that split second where she didn't know what was coming, and most likely, felt nothing. Yet in my mind, I can't get past the traumatic violent crash of the van hitting her side of the car, her body trembling, her mind losing function. I know this all seems to vulgar to put into words, but it's what's been bothering me. It's something I need to release and let go of, but I don't know how.
We've been without our back deck that past couple of weeks as they rebuild it, so smoking has either happened all the way downstairs or out the bathroom window. Either way, any time I light up while at home, I think about one of the last conversations we had while I was down visiting her. I was making excuses for continuing the bad habit, and she called me out on it, even with a smile on her face. She knew that, unless I was ready, quitting would most likely be in vain. Now that she's gone, I'm most certainly not ready.
Just a few moments ago, while smoking out the bathroom window, I remembered that conversation. I remember her smile, the way she challenged me without passing judgment. The way she knew how deeply I wanted, needed her love, her approval, and how willingly and unconditionally she gave it. Sure I had bad habits, sure she didn't understand everything about my identity and life choices, but she loved me, apparently more deeeply, more proudly, more fully than I would have, could have ever imagined.
I'm hurting bad today, and I've only been awake for less than two hours. I'm scared of what the rest of the day holds, scared of trying to keep my composure during the walk from the train to my therapist's office. I feel as if I don't deserve any of the good things in my life, like somehow, her being taken was my fault. I feel guilt for not calling her that Thursday after I returned home. I feel remorse for not getting married to Suzy so that Nanny would get to hold her great-grandchild in her arms, see the child's resemblance to me, and remark on how beautiful they were.
I know the title of this post barely matches the content, but it does describe the state of mind I'm in right now, feeling the finality of my time with her, the weight of the loss I've suffered. I remember how she looked at Frankie, how she smiled despite any discomfort. How she hugged him when we left from visiting at Christmas, even how she hugged him nightly as she would hug me.
I don't know how to keep going, what to do, how to live. I don't know how to honor her death because I don't know how I managed to honor her in life. I don't know what it was about me that made her so proud, made her love me so much. I don't think I deserved someone as wonderful as her. I certainly didn't deserve the kindness and pride she gave to and took in me.
I'm just really, very tired…


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My Father: How Moving to America Has Shaped his Perception
of America and his Own Identity
by Max Bauer, July 2014
For over a century, since the first major wave of immigrants started coming to America in the 1880's, the United States has captured the imagination of people all over the world looking for prosperity. My father was one of those people. He visited the United States for the first time in the early 1980's, and eventually settled down in East Lansing, Michigan, as a professor at Michigan States University. Like immigrants of all national and ethnic backgrounds, my father was drawn to the allure of the American dream, as much as he was drawn in by American mythology. To my father, America represented a land of freedom and progression. It was the birthplace of the blues and the rock music that had caught his ear as a teenager. Every immigrant comes to America with his or her own preconceptions of how life in the United States will be, and, upon arrival, many of them find that trying to generalize the United States in such a way is a futile task, as the country is so vast and so diverse that trying to label it all as any one thing would almost certainly be a lie. For my father, above all, America represented hope, and a chance to break free from the antiquated European culture for a new and exciting adventure. In many ways, he found what he was looking for. His time spent in America has been both exciting and illuminating, having changed many of his preconceived notions about the United States, while simultaneously changing his personal identity and the way he now perceives his European identity as a whole.
My father was born in Austria in 1955, to parents who had just survived the horrors of World War II, and were now dealing with its fallout. His father had been an accountant and his mother was the most wonderful housewife. After the end of the war, his parents moved back to their hometown, Puchberg Am Schneeberg, a small but stunningly beautiful town surrounded by mountains on almost all sides, content to spend the rest of their lives away from the horrors they had been forced to endure. It was here that my father was born and raised. Having always been an ambitious child, my father set his sights far beyond the borders of Puchberg at a young age. Exceptionally smart, he focused on studies, and saw them as a gateway out of the rural lifestyle he had hoped to escape. When it was finally time to go to college, my father chose to study at the University of Vienna. Vienna is the intellectual and cultural center of Austria, as well as my birthplace, and is where my father took his first steps on the path that has lead him to become head of his department, Telecommunications and Economics, at Michigan State University. Like many of those who eventually migrate to the United States, he was drawn by the allure of the American dream, as well as its culture. He eventually was able to experience America first hand, getting the opportunity to study in the United States. After doing research for his dissertation in the United States, and meeting my mother, he moved back to Europe briefly, before finally being offered a job at Michigan State University. Both my parents still live in Michigan, where my father is a professor and my mother runs a film festival. I believe they are happy, though the stark contrast between American and European culture was at first difficult to reconcile.
The lure of American culture, both the promise of boundless opportunity for those willing to work hard enough, and the wonderful Rock and Roll music that had always captured my father's ear, enticed him into studying in the United States. I asked him why he chose the United States, and what had drawn him to this country. He told me the story of an uncle of his, who was a prisoner of war during World War II, and how he had been stationed in a prisoner of war camp in Virginia. His uncle had always spoken very positively about the United States. His uncle felt they had treated him very well, and he was grateful to them for having rescued him from the German army, for which he was being forced to fight against his will, on penalty of death, as many Austrians had been. It's hard to overestimate the importance the opinions of family can have on a child's impressions, and I think his uncle's opinions of America were the foundation of my father's interest. The second reason my father was drawn to the United States was the opportunity for success. Even compared to an academic sphere as developed as that in Vienna, the United States was among the most exciting places to be, both in terms of academics and opportunity. According to my father, "America was seen as a place of big opportunities that were more flexible and more entrepreneurial than Austria at the time". Like many immigrants before him, the possibility of financial success played a major role in his decision to come.
From the perspective of my father and many Europeans during the 1960's and early 1970's, the United States seemed like some new species of exotic flower, blooming and bursting at the seams with social movements and entirely new genres of music, largely in part to the press coverage and cultural significance of the counterculture movement. During this time the United States was very much defined by the era of the hippies, and the psychedelic music associated with it. From an international perspective, it wasn't hard to imagine the United States as a place where one could lose themselves in the counterculture entirely. Donald R. Wesson, whose study, "Psychedelic Drugs, Hippie Counterculture, Speed and Phenobarbital Treatment of Sedative-Hypnotic Dependence: A Journey to the Haight Ashbury in the Sixties," of 1960's San Francisco and the chemical dependence that for many originated during this time, summarized the general attitude of the 1960's well: "the 1960's were a time of social upheaval, wars, vibrant creativity, and missed opportunities" (Wesson 2). To a young Austrian growing up in a fairly isolated town, the United States must have seemed like a place where exciting new things were happening, and where the chance to express oneself and feel free existed on every corner. In some places, that reality existed. In most places, however, the counterculture scene developing in San Francisco was far from reality. Like many immigrants before him, my father made the mistake of associating what was happening in San Francisco, and the personal values inherent to many aspects of the hippie movement, such as social equality and freedom, with the entirety of the United States. As a result of my father's misconception of the majority of Americans and their value, I believe he placed significantly less value on his European identity than he would have otherwise. Not to say that my father didn't love being from Austria; he truly did. But, the stories of freedom of expression and the unbelievable music coming from the United States were dynamically opposed to many aspects of European culture, a culture my father described as "rigid yet steeped in history and art." Eventually my father found his way to America, where he experienced the reality of American culture first hand.
After having spent some time in the United States, the preconceived notions my father held about American values, as well as his conception that America could be defined as a homogenous entity, changed. Before truly emigrating to the United States, the only time my father had spent in America was in the urban and progressive areas of New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. In many ways, the people, who in those areas tended to believe in certain values, such as social equality and environmental conscientiousness, were more similar to his European peers than they were to the people in the Midwest, where he would eventually raise a family. The true culture shock for my father occurred when he finally accepted his job at Michigan State University, and moved to the Midwest. Before that point, he hadn't realized just how different various parts of the United States could be. He commented on its variance during our interview, "I remember when we arrived in Michigan, I was shocked to see just how different everything was. It seemed like we had landed in the wrong place. It was then I realized just how vast, and how diverse, the United States was." As our family started to settle in, both my parents had a hard time at first adapting to life in the Midwest, and with relating to the people. Even my mother, who was an American citizen, having grown up in San Francisco, was taken aback by the difference in values. In the Midwest, relative to the places my parents had lived, life moved slowly. The people focused on community, raising children in a safe environment, and enjoying their relationships with other people. Compared to the often self-centered, individual success oriented life style prevalent in cities, the Midwest, at first, seemed dull. But soon, both of my parents started to truly enjoy their new life. They could enjoy the safety of the community while raising their children. They also started to form long lasting friendships, friendships that may not have been possible in an urban setting, due to the almost paradoxical isolation brought on by dense populations. Though my father had always wondered what would have happened if he had stayed in Europe, he never regretted moving the United States, both for personal and professional reasons.
Trying to define European identity in any absolute terms may not be valid, but if one were to ask people from Europe how they relate to their countries as a whole, I believe there would be several commonalities between the responses. Having spent a lot of time in Europe, both with my family and on my own, I feel fairly qualified to speak about the similarities across Europe, and the differences between European and American identity. The immediate difference between the two cultures is simply the length of time each has existed. In many ways, the United States is a nation that is still developing its national identity, having only existed for a handful of centuries. In Europe, on the other hand, there are thousands of years of intellectual and artistic history built into the cultural center of each nation. Art and history are such an integral part of European culture that I believe that all Europeans have a greater appreciation for the humanities than most Americans. The second major difference is the physical space that Europe occupies. Europe has about twice the population as the United States, though it occupies less than half the space. This astounding compression of cultures and languages has, in a very natural way, contributed to the international mindset of Europeans. They are constantly coming into contact with people that speak different languages and the importance of multilingualism can never be overstated, while in America it simply isn't a priority. All of these characteristics are very present in my father, and though he may have once felt restrained by European culture, I believe that today he appreciates it more than ever.
The stark contrast between my father's European identity and the staunchly American personalities he came across in the Midwest at first seemed like a barrier he would never cross. He was used to the progressive and exciting areas of New York and San Francisco, and trying to reconcile his Austrian values with the slow paced life in the Midwest was difficult. The most difficult part was trying to relate to the humor in the Michigan. The fast paced city life of Europe, with thousands of years of culture and history, clashed drastically with the wide open spaces and the often culturally lacking values of Michigan. Drinking Coors and watching baseball weren't particularly engaging activities for my Father, and he soon longed for the culture he had left behind, even refusing to return to Europe in fear that the process of having to return to America would be too painful. His refuge was work and research, where he was no longer trying to artificially assimilate to a culture he didn't belong in. "I think that my own personality is much more in tuned with European senses compared to culture here in the US. I never regretted it on a professional level, because there were so many more opportunities here in the US, but I always wondered what would have happened if I had stayed." Fortunately, life in Academia proved very fulfilling for my father, but the sense that he had lost the connection to his roots was a traumatic experience. For any immigrant, the sense that they somehow abandoned their past is often present. European culture, that to my father once seemed rigid and stuck in place, now felt like an essential part of his identity. It took the shattering of his preconceptions of America to realize that his roots were not only there to be escaped from, they were a fundamental part of how he saw himself as a person.
Due in large part to the experiences my father has had teaching at Michigan State University, his connection to both European and American culture has significantly increased. By realizing that many of the idealistic notions of America he had were on many levels not true, my father has grown to understand that he initially gave less value to his Austrian heritage than it deserved. Having only recently become an American citizen, my father has adapted his identity to the winding road of his life. He truly is a man of both worlds, able to operate seamlessly in the culturally rich environment of Western Europe, and the fast-paced, success oriented American lifestyle. To put it in his own words, "I feel at home in either country. They're both my home now". Today, my father takes every opportunity to visit his home town that he can, having learned to embrace both the country he came from and the country that he has raised a family in. I see my father as a man who is constantly evolving, and always looking to take the first step on some new adventure. His identity is in many way elastic; he seems to be constantly growing. Over the years, the world view he has adopted has given him a heightened sense of patience and understanding, and has helped him overcome both his own tribulations and given him the insight to help other people overcome theirs.
Over the years, various experiences have changed the way my father perceives America and Americans, and as a whole have changed the way he relates to his European identity. By moving to America, my father's preconceived notion of the United States as a homogenous entity in which the same value systems exist throughout the nation, changed, and as a result, he developed a greater appreciation of his European heritage, which he now enjoys for its culture and relation to history. Though at first he saw his European roots as antiquated, to the point that he felt being European was a disadvantage, he now appreciates the unique cultural sensitivities it has instilled in, and the diversity it adds to his identity, both in how own eyes and the eyes of others. He once believed that he could generalize Americans, but he ultimately realized he completely underestimated the complexity and the vastness of the nation. Many immigrants have the experience of expecting a nation to be a certain way and finding it to be much different. According to Marcella Ramelli, whose article "Being prepared for acculturation: On the importance of the first months after immigrants enter a new culture" appeared in International Journal of Psychology, the first few months in a new country are often shocking for an immigrant, as they find themselves needed to behave and even think in a different way than they had expected. She writes, "When immigrants arrive in a new country, they are repeatedly confronted by situations unknown to their cultural perspectives. As a result, immigrants often experience anxiety and a sense of uncertainty due to the invalidity of their old thinking-as-usual" (Ramelli 2). After spending time in the Midwest, which differs tremendously from the cultural hubs of San Francisco and New York, where he spent time doing research, my father realized the extent of the diversity of the United States. He had always envisioned the United States as brimming with an omnipresent excitement, and though that feeling does exist is some places, many parts of the United States have different values. Realizing the false assumptions he had made about America, he grew to appreciate the simplicity of his Austrian roots, and as a result embraced his heritage more than he ever would have otherwise.
Works Cited
"Weekend Interview with My Dad." Personal interview. 9 July 2014.
Wesson, Donald R. "Psychedelic Drugs, Hippie Counterculture, Speed and Phenobarbital Treatment Sedative-Hypnotic Dependence: A Journey to the Haight Ashbury in the Sixties." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 43.2 (2011): 153-164. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 July 2014
Ramelli, Marcella, et al. "Being Prepared For Acculturation: On the Importance of the First Months after Immigrants Enter a New Culture." International Journal of Psychology 48.3 (2013): 363-373. Business Source Premier. Web. 23 July 2014.
Sample Transcripts of Interview between Max Bauer and his Father, Johannes Bauer
M: First question is, why, uh hello? Why did you choose America, why was America your country of choice to migrate to?
J: That's a very good question. I don't think there's one answer there's multiple reasons for it. One was since I was a kid I was fascinated by America, umm, I was always curious about it. For one probably my uncle, I don't know if you remember him, he was a prisoner of war. He actually was moved to a camp in the US, in Virginia I believe. And uh, but he always spoke very favorably about America, and so that left a very good impression. And you know my family grew up in war torn Austria, after WWII, Austria was divided into 4 zones. One was American, one was Russian, one was French, and one was English. And my parents wound up in the Russian area, and all they did was talk about the hardships they had sort of dealing with this so at the same uncle, just by luck, ended up in an American zone and so again he was very favorable towards America. So again that's one reason, from very early on I have this sort of positive image of America. Secondly, when I was a teenager I really liked American rock music, like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and the Doors and all those bands, I mean they were just with us all the time, I that got me interested in that sense. Lastly, you know I saw America as a place of big opportunities that were more entrepreneurial than Austria. And so then I had a chance, as a fellow student, to spend some time in the US, to write a dissertation that included some work in the US, and I found some grant money, and some financial support to come to the US for a while, so I moved to New York first for a little bit and then to San Francisco to UC Berkeley and in New York Columbia University, and I would explore the country in between. So I picked up a VW van in California, it was like a camper van, I went to the Southwest and the national parks and everything and I was quite fascinated by the country and then I went back to Europe and I decided, well first of all you know Susan and I, Mom and I, met in San Francisco when I was at Berkeley and the solidified the connection and eventually I became curious to work in the US, mostly because first of all when I left, I felt I hadn't learned enough about the country. So I wanted to come back. The opportunities in Austria were not, and in Europe in general, were not as good at the time in my opinion. So I came here, and we stayed. That's pretty much it in a nut shell. So fascination for one, personal ties for two, and work opportunities, much better than they were in Europe.
M: mmhmm. Ok so what age were you when you moved to the United States?
J: When we finally moved, I was 35.
M: Ok so you came to America first for school.
J: Yeah let me think about it. I was in my early thirties or late twenties. And you know there was a time when Susan lived in the United States, and I lived in Europe. And we had this long distance relationship where I lived in Vienna, and I started looking for job opportunities in the US. I started applying for jobs and had a few interviews. I mean I remember I was in Atlanta, at a big conference, and Michigan States offered a job, and invited me to an interview on campus and so I came here and talked to them and eventually it worked out and finally we all came back to the US.
M: Ok great. Dad I'm gonna make sure that this is recording and I'll call you right back.
J: Alright, ok great.
M: Hey
J: Hello?
M: Hey so it worked. So umm next question is, when you first arrived in America, what expectations did you have?
J: (pauses) Hehe. I have to think back. You know I came over very very naively, I mean I thought I would just, well you have to keep in mind that when I came here I was doing work on my dissertation, and I was supposed to do research, and my dissertation was comparative research so it was comparing American economic policies to European policies. I thought I would be able to just talk to a few people in different organization and in private industry and then I would understand what was going on in the US. I was shocked at how complicated the country was. And so at the end of that first year, I realized that I knew nothing. I was actually quite disheartened. I was actually really quite discouraged because it was way more complicated than I ever had imagined, and the little bit of work that I could do in that one year seemed to totally be inadequate to the size of the country, and you know other things, such as it being energetic, and there being lots of music was great and big sky scrapers and the fascinating experiences in San Francisco and New York and all those things, I had read about it ahead of time, I had heard about it many times, so it was great to see it all live. But in terms of the work I did, I thought everything was much more simple than it turned out to be. It was much more complicated than I thought it was. And much bigger and much more complex.
M: Hmmm, well which of those expectations turned out to be true, and which turned out to be false. Well I guess you sort of covered that.
J: Maybe we should talk a bit about when I came back, when I was hired by Michigan State. Because at that point I hadn't really emigrated yet. I hadn't thought about living in the United States until I was hired. When I came back in 1990, I had very few expectations. To me it was all an adventure. I thought it was very exciting to get into professional life and develop a career here. You know I didn't really know for exactly how long I was going to come and I didn't really talk about it explicitly. We thought maybe for 3 years, maybe 2. And then go back to Europe or something. But uh when I came here I realized I was in a tenure position so there was a chance that I would get an unlimited contract, so I figured ok I'll just and see if I can get tenure.
M: Well I'd say that seems to have worked out really well.
J: Yeah yeah sure. And then after 3 and a half years, they were willing to give me tenure early, usually it takes about 7 years. And now I thought, well I have tenure, if I have tenure why would I want to go back to Europe? And then you know you and Tatia had friends, and a social environment and you liked going to school here and we had a nice house and there didn't seem to be much reason to take you back to Europe. You know, I expected things to be more dynamic, more entrepreneurial at the university because in the end a lot of it was very bureaucratic, although things have changed in the meantime, I did not anticipate that there would be so much material. But here everything was so vast and so big, I mean in the end, once I lived there, I realized how big the country is. How diverse it is and how complicated it is. You and I actually expected to make more money than I actually did. After taxes and everything that was taken out. In the beginning, eventually, we had enough for a house. But you know it was never easy for me, because I always regretted leaving Europe for some reason. At first I didn't like living here. But also because we didn't have enough money we had to sell the apartment in Vienna, so we could have some money for a house. Soo, we didn't really go back to Vienna, because when we left, Europe opened up, and as a result real estate prices rose, and so by the time two years later when we thought about going back, everything was twice as expensive. So what happened had happened, and I always had second thoughts about what would have happened if I had stayed in Europe, especially on a professional level, because I think that my own personality is much in tuned with European senses compared to culture here in the US. I never regretted it on a professional level, because there were so many more opportunities here in the US, but I always wondered. So for the first 5 or 6 years I deliberately didn't go back to Europe, because I thought it would be sad, and I wouldn't want to leave the old world, because there was always this sort of sense that I had lost my roots. And you know it's interesting to talk about your Mom because she came back to her own country, but she was used to California, and even though she was in her own country, she was in a totally different place. First of all, people were much more reserved, maybe, than they were on the coast, but after a while, after she got to know them, they became much more open and friendly, and so she was able to form very deep relationships. At first she was very disappointed coming back to her own country but after about two or three years she really started liking it. You a lot of things that would happen on the east coast, like hour long traffic jams, and the benefits of the Midwest like great public schools, and safe caring neighborhoods.
M: I was always glad that I grew up in the Midwest and not in a big city
J: Yeah I think the quality of life that you and Tatia would have had growing up in a city would have been, in many ways, much lower.


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Men's hat trends for 2015
The first hat that is trending this year in 2015 is the bucket hat. It kind of seems obvious now that you don't necessarily have to be a skateboarder or a high rapper to wear a bucket hat anymore and neither have you to lookout for the weather. This bucket hat is so resourceful that it can definitely be worn easily in winters too. Do not over style yourself if you want to wear a bucket hat. Try to infuse the bucket hat with more neutral tones of color. the color isn't the only thing you should be worried about try style yourself with simple clothing such as jeans, simple t shirt and trainers or converse. This is just a rough idea on how to style yourself if you want to wear a bucket hat but of course you can go along and wear any kind of style you want.
The next kind of hat that is being said to break into the market with a bam is the flat cap. Flat caps are known to be associated and termed with the design concept of the baseball cap. But let us not start assumptions and turn to the fact that flat caps are also interlinked with fedoras. As you don't have to be a rapper for a bucket hat likewise you certainly don't have to be an Italian that you wear a flat cap. To style up your flat cap pull out your favorite heavy weight blazer and you without a doubt with that classic expensive shirt and heavy weight blazer will look no less than an Italian. Another hat that we do not want to leave out is the infamous beanie. Beanies are surely securing their position in the market as we have seen in many runway shows that beanies were carried out with such style like on Gucci's runway for an example.
So who ever is classifying beanies as street style should now wake up as this street style is about to turn vogue style. So people if you want to wear a beanie let us remind you not to go flashy with such colors and remain in the limits of color definition while thinking to style yourself. We hope these hats will bring a whole new you to your style and class. The key to wearing hats is to balance out the colors with the hat. We do not want you to go over the boundaries by matching your beanies with tasteless colors that will leave you in the end as a dead person or too much over the top that won't make you stand a chance to stand out as a person worth remembering (ofcourse in good words).
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College Football Players Use God's Strength To Save Man
Two Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) football players are real heroes for saving a man's life.
Chevy Mikaele and Ben Langford were attending Bible study at their church after their football practice when they heard John Reilly, who was working on his truck across the street, begin screaming for help.
"The truck was completely crushing him, completely on his chest," said Pastor Johnny Pacheco.
The players, along with a few members of the church, raced across the church and lifted the 2.5 ton truck, pulling Reilly to safety.
They aren't taking the credit though.
"It wasn't us, it was God," said Mikaele."You can see this truck looks pretty heavy. It wasn't us. It took the strength of God for us to pick this up, so all the glory goes to God, not us."
The men weren't even supposed to be there that evening. Typically, they go home after practice.
Pastor Pacheco said, "I believe that if God didn't have us placed here, and if he wasn't able to give the strength to these men, he would have died under that vehicle."
John is still in the hospital, fighting for his life. His wife, Mary, is asking for prayers that he'll make it through.
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Spending on postapproval drug safety.
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Please find your favorite writer and strike up an e-mail conversation with them. Help them "tell the truth" for the rest of us. I have noticed if one major metropolitan paper originates a Y2K story, many of the national newsmedia tend to reprint it.
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Saudi Arabia's cement industry, the largest in the Middle East, has largely expanded this year and growth it expected to continue due to a sharp rise in construction projects, the Gulf country's largest bank said on Tuesday.
Contract awards through the first three quarters of 2011 reached SAR179.5bn, a staggering 125% increase over the same period last year, National Commercial Bank (NCB) said its weekly bulletin, sent to Emirates 24/7.
Production in September rose by 27% compared to levels in September of 2010, thereby reaching 3.2Mt, it said.
As for clinker production, the 13 locally operating companies produced nearly 3.41 million tonnes during the same month, Over the first nine months of 2011, cement production has risen by 11.8% while clinker production increased by 8.5%, the report showed.
Furthermore, cement exports are still on the rise climbing by 5.8% over the last three quarters, representing Al-Jouf's recent regional penetration, it said.
"Local deliveries are at 97% and 96% for cement and clinker productions, respectively, highlighting the short supply experienced in the market…. on the equity front, the cement sector rose an impressive 20.3% year. As the third quarter came to an end, corporate earnings have reflected positively."
Citing balance-to-dates heets, the report said the10 listed cement companies have collectively generated SR982.2 million during the third quarter of this year, expanding net profits by around 26.8%.
"The latest addition to the cement sector, Hail Cement, witnessed a 1.3x over subscription, emphasizing the confidence of investors in the industry," it said.
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PALCAM increases capacity, and working envelope. The addition of the DMU 125 P duoBLOCK® offers travels of 1,250 mm x 1,000 mm x 1,000 mm with an effective table load of 2,500kg.
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Amazon reports weaker than expected outlook for the crucial pre-Christmas season.
Amazon reported weaker than expected forecasts for the pre-Christmas season causing a 12 percent stock fall and shocking investors on Wednesday.
The weaker outlook was attributed to the investment Amazon had spent on its new Kindle Fire tablet computer.
The stock tumbled 12 percent Tuesday in extended trading as the news raised concern that Amazon was losing some of the revenue momentum that had helped investors overlook its razor-thin profit margins.
Amazon forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $16.34 billion (£10.19 billion) to $18.65 billion, compared with analysts' average estimate of $18.15 billion as compiled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Amazon's forecast would mean 27 to 44 percent growth from a year earlier. In the third quarter, sales grew 44 percent, less than the 51 percent gain in the second quarter.
The company also said it could report a $200 million operating loss to a $250 million operating profit in the holiday quarter as it spends on the Fire and other initiatives.
Amazon said on Tuesday its third-quarter net income was $63 million, or 14 cents a share, versus $231 million, or 51 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue was $10.88 billion, up 44 percent from the third quarter of 2010, it added.


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SCOTT Morgan is set to become the latest player to leave crisis-hit Barry Town when he joins Forest Green later today - and more are set to follow.
Barry are legally two months in arrears with wages and players are leaving the club in droves.
Morgan, a former player of the year at the Welsh Premier League champions, has been a massive presence in the centre of defence in the last three seasons and becomes the 10th player to leave the club in three weeks.
Captain Lee Jarman and Lee Phillips are understood to be reviewing their situation, although both will play in Friday's season opener against Aberystwyth Town at Jenner Park.
Manager Kenny Brown now has only himself, Lee Rudall, Lee Phillips, Richard Kennedy, Tom Ramasut, Mark Malloy, Jamie Moralee, Adebayo Akinfenwa and reserve keeper Duncan Roberts available for Friday night's game.
Lee Jarman is suspended while Nathan Cotterrall and Lawrence Davies are still with the club, but both are injured.


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Portadown to Switzerland by tractor - not the most conventional journey but one which turned out to be the drive of a lifetime for 20-year-old Chrisy Smart.
Chrisy, who works for agricultural machinery company Burkes of Cornascriebe, found himself in the driving seat when he seized the opportunity to collect a trailer for his employer and visit his Loughgall girlfriend at the same time.
Sitting high up in the cab of the £80,000 New Holland tractor, and travelling at a steady 32mph, Chrisy described the three-day trip down France and into Switzerland as "the best way to see Europe".
He said, "I had a great view. There was hardly a hill. It was just green until it met the blue of the sky. I've never seen anything like it."
Chrisy, who admits he is pretty laid-back, had never previously driven anywhere outside Ireland. But armed with his sat nav, map and phone, he made it to the Swiss village of Aesch despite having to drive on the 'wrong' side of the road and knowing no French except 'bonjour'.
"I would start driving about 9.30 in the morning and drive all day, just stopping to refuel the tractor and myself. I had no accommodation booked but managed to find somewhere every night.
"I did get a few funny looks, especially when the only hotel I could find one night was really fancy and I had to park up in full view of the dining room."
He had a few 'close encounters' too, being stopped by police on one occasion. "When I explained what I was doing they said I must be crazy!" he said.
And having been warned by a number of long distance lorry drivers that he would need a log book and insurance documents to get over the Swiss border (which he didn't have with him), he instead took a back road and when he came to the border station just hoped for the best and "kept on driving".
Once in Switzerland, he picked up the trailer - one of only six in the world and the first for the UK - and accompanied by girlfriend Laura Hewitt in the tractor's passenger seat, drove to Cherbourg where both machines made the homeward journey by boat.
Chrisy and Laura, who is on a university placement year with Nestle, then spent a few days together in Switzerland, before returning home for Christmas - this time by plane.
"I would do it again in the morning," he said. "I want to thank Laura for putting up with me on the tractor, Burkes of Cornascriebe who I was always on the phone to for support, and my family."


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Research on structural biology is focused on multiprotein assemblies involving cell surface receptors, such as Met and hepatocyte growth factor/ scatter factor (HGF/SF), and on intracellular signalling systems that mediate cell regulation and repair, for example DNA Double-Strand-Break Repair and chromosome segregation. Many signalling pathways are aberrant in tumours, such as the tumours in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome. We have determined the X-ray structure of a region of the tumour suppressor protein, folliculin, involved in the pathogenesis of kidney cancer subtypes, and are investigating its interactions to understand function and develop anti-cancer therapeutics. We are interested in ways that multiprotein assemblies achieve high signal to noise through cooperative interactions leading to specific but often transient assemblies.
Research on informatics has built on insights from the experimental labs on the recognition of distant homologues and comparative modelling. This has recently been reinforced by the development of relational databases for storage and analysis of protein interactions, focusing on ligand binding. Together these have been developed into pipelines for modelling genomes and understanding genetic variation.
In our academic drug discovery programmes, we have used the structural insights to develop new methods of early lead discovery and optimisation, resulting in the spin-out of Astex Therapeutics, and in house development of early discovery programmes, funded by the Wellcome Trust (difficult targets involving protein-protein interactions) and Gates and EU (neglected diseases, mainly tuberculosis).
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1 . Sibanda BL, Chirgadze DY, Blundell TL. (2010) Crystal structure of DNA-PKcs reveals a large open-ring cradle comprised of HEAT repeats. Nature. 463: 118-21.
2. Worth CL, Gong S, Blundell TL. (2009) Structural and functional constraints in the evolution of protein families. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 10: 709-20.
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Scientists are up in arms about legislation stemming from a 2007 treaty signed between Australia and the US, saying it will stifle research and hinder international collaboration.
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: The scientific community is up in arms about new laws that it says will stifle research and hinder international collaboration.
They're fighting a losing battle against legislation that stems from a 2007 treaty signed between Australia and the US and which is about to be passed by the Federal Parliament.
The Government says the Defence Trade Controls Bill will be a boon for Australian defence industries and will free up trade with the US.
Matthew Carney with this report. Ben McLean was the producer.
MATTHEW CARNEY, REPORTER: Michael Biercuk is at the cutting edge of quantum physics. His research could change the way our world works with applications in medicine, computers and energy generation. Under the new legislation he'll need a permit to use the tools of his trade because they are also used in defence research.
MICHAEL BIERCUK, SYDNEY UNIVERSITY: So this device is called an ion trap. It's the workhorse of our experiments where we do basic and applied research in quantum physics. Unfortunately it gets caught up in this new defence legislation because one of the things we do with it is try and build new kinds of atomic clocks for precision time-keeping and this is a controlled technology.
MATTHEW CARNEY: Dr Biercuk is part of an international team and under the new laws every time he phones a colleague, sends an email or presents at a conference he'll have to get permission from the Defence Minister. He'll even have to get the minister's approval to publish his findings.
MICHAEL BIERCUK: The Government supported an amendment that captures publication of goods or information relating to goods on the Defence Strategic Goods List. This means that if you inadvertently publish information as part of your research about something that you may not have known was controlled on this list, you face 10 years' criminal penalty.
MATTHEW CARNEY: Under the Defence Trade Controls Bill the scientific community says research and innovation will be crushed under red tape.
JILL TREWHELLA, SYDNEY UNIVERSITY: To have this kind of attack on our research enterprise and put these kinds of constraints on our communication for basic and applied research, for fundamental science that is ordinarily shared in the open scientific literature, it's extraordinary.
MATTHEW CARNEY: The Deputy Vice Chancellor of Sydney University says Australia will longer be a desired destination for scientists looking to do research.
JILL TREWHELLA: Well they're definitely telling me that they're going to have to assess the impact of this regulatory regime on their ability to be competitive and to do their work in Australia. They're definitely worried that it is going to have a big impact and they're concerned that they may have to go elsewhere to do their research.
MATTHEW CARNEY: The Government says the bill is aimed at stopping defence technologies getting into the wrong hands while giving a leg up to Australian defence industries by removing export restrictions with US counterparts.
But the Senate Committee for Defence and Trade recognised the bill's shortcomings back in August.
DAVID JOHNSON, LIBERAL SENATOR: This legislation is a disgrace. It is inadequately prepared, it is inadequately thought through, but the fact is that it contains a very important diplomatic tool for Australian defence industry participants and that is a treaty with the United States.
MATTHEW CARNEY: Critics say the bill has been rushed through in time for Australia-US bilateral talks next month, which US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is due to attend.
SCOTT LUDLAM, GREENS SENATOR: The United States government has been lobbying very hard in its own interests. There's no secret to the fact that Ambassador Bleich has been working Parliament House, putting his point of view. I just wish that the interests of the Australian academics had prevailed just this once.
MATTHEW CARNEY: A last-minute amendment to exempt scientists from the bill has been voted down by both houses of Parliament. The Defence Minister rejects the criticisms and says the Government has consulted widely.
STEPHEN SMITH, DEFENCE MINISTER: The Government, in response to the preliminary report from the Senate committee, asked Mr Peacock, the chief Defence scientist and the chief scientist to engage in consultations and a roundtable. Every one of the recommendations made at that roundtable have been adopted by the Government, presented to the Senate, agreed to by the Senate and are supported by the Government on the floor of the chamber today. And so the suggestion that this has all been done in a great rush is, frankly, hyperbole and overegging it.
MATTHEW CARNEY: The Government has allowed a trial period of two years to test if the legislation damages Australian research and innovation.
Matthew Carney, Lateline.


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On Saturday, March 21, the distinguished men of Epsilon Theta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., held their 15th annual Black and Gold Ball at the Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel.
(Photos Coming Up Next)[PRESS RELEASE] On Saturday, March 21, the distinguished men of Epsilon Theta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., held their 15th annual Black and Gold Ball at the Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel. This Gala has become a staple on Bermuda's social calendar with many Governmental Parliamentarians, members of the clergy, members of the Judiciary, and captains of industry in attendance. The Black and Gold Ball was a culmination of Alpha Week 2015, which saw the Alphas host the Symposium at the Bermuda College and the Leadership Breakfast for high school male seniors at the St. Paul's Centennial Hall.To jump start the night's entertainment the audience was blessed with a powerful rendition of "Glory" the feature track from the movie Selma by Alpha men, Lloyd Holder (singing) and Chris Crumpler (rap) with background vocals by other local men of Alpha. This was followed by a video tribute to the Late Brother Vincent Bridgewater and special song by Lauren "Bunni" Easton.It is customary every year for the Chapter to acknowledge community servants for their dedication to Bermuda. This year Patrick Tannock, President of XL Insurance (Bermuda), was recognized for his leadership in the field of insurance in Bermuda and for his mentorship of Bermudians in the field. Achievement awards were also given to Alana Anderson and Cherie Dill for successfully completing their actuarial science designation and for their community service and youth mentorship.The entertainment of the night was recording artist, Samantha Howard from Brooklyn, New York, who mesmerized the audience with her broad repertoire and her diverse vocal range. During one of her sets the crowd was on their feet dancing as she belted out "The Way" by Jill Scott. This was followed by the presidential address by chapter president Phil Trott who reminded the brothers that service must be the hallmark of our commitment to our community.The keynote speaker was Peabody Award winning journalist, Vic Carter, who is the primary news anchor for CBS WJTV in Baltimore, Maryland. His highly motivational speech conveyed the importance to the Men of Alpha the importance of staying committed to their community. He explained that they are like firemen in their community and when called upon they must respond.Introduced to the audience on the evening were the contestants for the upcoming 2015 Beautillion (a high school Rites of Passage Program). The contestants are Zaren Bennett , Bermuda Institute, Tahj Cox, Saltus Grammar School, Marcus Henschke, Berkeley Institute, Dylan Wilson, Cedarbridge Academy, Tariq Brown, Impact Mentoring Academy, David Darrel, Warwick Academy, and Even Mosley of Mount Saint Agnes Academy.Also, introduced on the night were the newest initiates into the Epsilon Theta Lambda Chapter, Gladwin Omar Lodge Jr., Jason Wade, Kian Butterfield and Donavan Ratteray.The evening was capped off by a generous donation of eight plane tickets courtesy of Jet Blue to all the former presidents of the local chapter for their hard work and dedication to the community.The men of Alpha would like to thank our sponsors: ASW Law , Cablevision, XL Ltd., Orbis, BELCO, Digicel, Pink Sand Entertainment, Hunt's Food & Supplies , Toastmasters International ,COMPU-CAD Training and Services , Mussenden Subir Attorneys , Renaissance Re., Department of Youth & Sport and Jamaican Grill as well as the 350 guest who we had the honor of celebrating with on Saturday night.
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For Transfer Students:
Sinai University accepts transfer students under the following stipulations:
1- Students should be transferring from a parallel faculty with at least 40% of
credit hours needed for graduation and a minimum of two academic years.
2- a transferee is not expelled from the original faculty.
3- A transferee's grade should not be less that pass or a CGPA of 2.0.
4- A transferee should present a certificate of good conduct from original faculty.
5- A transferee should not be enrolled in any private or state universities in or
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Transfer students within ARE
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4. For state university transfers, a student should not have depleted their flunk
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2. All original documents must be attested by the issuing authority and the
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Special requirements for international certificates General rules:
– Students with international secondary certificates need to pass tests of
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I strongly support the campaign for ranked choice voting, which would reform and modernize Maine's electoral system. This "common sense" reform was presented at several town meetings during the last election cycle. If we approve this reform, we could put an end to the "spoiler effect" and ensure that our leaders are elected with a majority of support.
Our current system of plurality voting works well when there are just two candidates running for office. But, it does not work well when there are more than two candidates, as commonly happens in our state.
Ranked choice voting has all the benefits of a traditional run-off, without having to return to the polls for another election. By competing not just for first, but also second choice rankings, ranked choice voting would discourage negative campaigning and all the false issues that come with it. We would experience more civility. The most important debates over public policy would take precedent, And, candidates would be compelled to attract a broader base of support.
In the last couple of gubernatorial elections, many voters have felt stuck between voting strategically for the most "electable" candidate and voting for who they believe would be able to best lead our state to prosperity.
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Swansea City Opera (SCO) is the City of Swansea's flag-ship opera company, touring high quality opera to venues throughout the UK. SCO is essentially a mid-scale touring company comprising up to 50 musicians and singers. The company tours complete operas, mainly sung in English, and makes the product affordable and accessible to new audiences by taking subsidised opera into smaller venues in under-resourced areas.
The Opera School Wales (TOSW) is SCO's training arm. It provides residential opera training courses for talented post graduate singers. TOSW is primarily a pre-professional training school for talented young Artists from Wales, the UK and abroad. It also provides expertise and support to SCO in the planning and delivery of its community and outreach opera education initiatives. In return SCO provides real career development opportunities to promising young Artists of the School, the most gifted of whom are offered Chorus and understudy work with SCO, leading to solo work. The school is fortunate to have the support of David Syrus - Head of Music at Covent Garden - who comes annually to work with the school.
To assist talented young professional singers to develop and hone their skills and experience towards future fulfilling careers.
To provide intensive courses delivered by high profile opera professionals in a focussed environment appropriate for learning, personal development and team-building.
To provide students with a qualified assessment of their current abilities and advice as to further training and career opportunities.
To offer advice and mentoring for the singers alongside intensive, expert tuition.
To assist young singers with audition techniques and other aspects of obtaining work or gaining admission to further training opportunities.
To provide professional performing experience for young singers and offer real employment opportunities for particularly gifted students.
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