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The Actors From "Magic Mike" Explain The Art Of Male Exotic Dancing
Man-tastic! That's how PIX11 Morning's Tamsen Fadal described the male dominated cast of the new film "Magic Mike." Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum are among the hunks starring in this big screen foray into the world of male exotic dancing. Tatum actually worked as a dancer in his younger days and pulls from that past experience to bring his character Magic Mike to life. Rounding out the cast is Matt Bomer ("White Collar") and Joe Manganiello ("Tru Blood"). McConaughey confessed that he found himself asking the choreographer of the film to show him additional dance moves. To see just how much he learned, check out "Magic Mike" in theaters today.
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Is there any Exploit Available.?
I know one for Solaris 10. Any other?
Just a couple of hints off the top of my head:
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Ahmad al-Jarba, leader of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Syria's main political opposition group, points his finger during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Al-Jarba announced that the Syrian peace talk negotiations will be difficult and that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is now part of the past. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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GENEVA (AP) — The leader of Syria's Western-backed opposition said Thursday he will give his negotiating team the authority it needs in any talks with President Bashar Assad's government.
Ahmad al-Jarba, head of the Syrian National Coalition, said: "We have taken a strategic and brave decision to come to Geneva. The road to negotiations has begun."
Speaking at a news conference, he said Assad's allies were falling away as the prospect of peace talks approached.
The two sides have not yet spoken directly at the peace talks in Switzerland aimed at forging a path out of Syria's civil war.
Syria's government declared that its main priority was stopping terrorism — not ensuring peace — and before al-Jarba spoke with reporters Thursday it hadn't been clear whether the opposition was ready to negotiate directly with the government it wants to overthrow.
As the two sides spent the day meeting separately with a U.N. mediator known for untangling diplomatic knots, their comments reflected positions hardened by nearly three years of civil war.
The goal of direct talks by Friday had appeared distant at best. But that seemed to change when al-Jarba said the talks won't be easy, but "the road to negotiations has begun."
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, speaking after the tense opening day of a peace conference that has nearly fallen apart at every step, said his government's priority was to "to fight terrorism." He said, "This paves the way for the start of the political process and an internal Syrian dialogue without any foreign intervention."
At least 130,000 people have been killed in the fighting that began in March 2011 with a peaceful uprising against President Bashar Assad's rule, according to activists who are the only ones still keeping count. The fighting in Syria has become a proxy war between regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia, and taken on post-Cold War overtones with Russia and the United States backing opposite sides.
Assad's government blames the West for the influx of foreign militants who have taken up the cause of the rebellion, and claims that his fall would turn the region into an al-Qaida haven.
Al-Moallem dismissed the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition as exiled, ineffectual meddlers, insisting that any political negotiations should take place without outside interference and with those who truly represent Syrians.
Haitham al-Maleh, a veteran Syrian opposition figure and a senior member of the coalition, said Thursday there may not be any face-to-face talks between the two delegations on Friday — as had been hoped — but rather mediator Lakhdar Brahimi would continue to shuttle between the two sides.
"I don't think we're ready for that yet. The gap is too big," said al-Maleh.
Brahimi was meeting first with al-Jarba, the coalition chief, then with al-Moallem, the U.N. said.
Al-Maleh, a longtime opponent of Assad's rule who spent many years in Syrian prisons, said it was "not easy" to sit in the same room with Assad's officials at Wednesday's opening of the peace conference.
"I looked at them and thought, are they really Syrians like me? How can they sit there and defend such a killer regime. How?" he asked.
Representatives hand-picked by Assad were staying in Geneva's Hotel de la Paix — or Peace Hotel. The opposition coalition was staying at the Intercontinental, where then-President Jimmy Carter met in 1977 with Assad's father, Hafez, to discuss Mideast peace prospects.
Syrian refugees staying at the Kilis camp in southern Turkey say the negotiations in Switzerland will not change their plight.
"Whether the opposition and the (Syrian) regime sit at the negotiating table makes no difference. The people of Syria have been left alone, and the international community is ignoring them," said refugee Mustafa Rejab.
The talks got off to a tense start Wednesday in the Swiss city of Montreux, with Assad's future at the heart of bitter exchanges on the podium as dozens of the world's most powerful diplomats looked on.
High-level mediating has yielded little so far, but Brahimi said the two sides might be willing to bend on humanitarian aid, cease-fires and prisoner exchanges.
At another Swiss venue, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Thursday for a new election in Syria, saying his nation would respect the results. Iran, a close ally of Assad's, was barred from participating in the Swiss-based talks to end Syria's civil war.
"The best solution is to organize a free and fair election in Syria" and once the ballots are cast "we should all accept" the outcome, Rouhani said.
Badr Jamous, secretary-general of the Syrian National Coalition, derided the speech.
"Where are we going to conduct such elections? In the Syrian camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey?" he said. "Or shall we look after the Syrian refugees in the boats sinking in the Mediterranean or in Europe or under the wreckage in Syria or in the cemeteries or in his prison?"


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Yemen's oil minister said on Saturday a grant of diesel from Saudi Arabia would be enough to cover the country's needs for two months.
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"Yemen's diesel consumption is 260,000 tonnes monthly, worth $280 million," oil minister Hisham Sharaf told Reuters.
"We sell it at 25 percent of its cost because of the government subsidy on diesel. The Saudi grant will cover Yemen's diesel needs for two months."
Industry sources said on Thursday Saudi Arabia's Aramco was seeking to buy fuel in order to donate about 500,000 tonnes of products to Yemen in January.
It would be the second time in six months Saudi Arabia has thrown a fuel lifeline to its impoverished neighbour, where a political crisis over demands for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh drags on. Saudi Arabia fears Yemen could slip into civil war.
Saleh has agreed to step down after 11 months of mass protests. A government split between members of his party and opposition figures is to work with the acting leader, Saleh's deputy, to lead Yemen to a presidential election in February.
Sharaf said production at the Masila oilfield, now under Yemeni administration after Canada's Nexen had one of its production contracts expire without renewal, was 70,000 barrels per day.
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Ever since the royal wedding last April, the male population writ large has been obsessed with Pippa Middleton's greatest asset. (Seriously, there's an entire website dedicated to it.) How dare she steal the spotlight from her sister, Kate Middleton, the blushing bride. But now, more than a year later, it seems that the Duchess of Cambridge herself has given British blokes something to inspire late night thoughts in their bachelor pads, albeit inadvertently: topless pictures.
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On his first foreign assignment, to the consulate in Geneva, Kennan began his decades-long study of European history, politics and society. Here he began to develop skills that set him apart from many of his Foreign Service colleagues. By continuously meeting with a broad spectrum of people in the countries to which he was assigned, he learned to assess both the underlying factors and the details of current affairs that drove the countries. As a budding diplomat, he also developed fluency in German and Russian, and kept records about all the interesting phenomena he observed. He had a proclivity for taking notes and translating them into reports--which served him well throughout his career, but, one senses, also had a price, as he tended to avoid talking things through with colleagues and providing feedback to his superiors in a manner that they might best have profited from it.
Kennan was fortunate to serve in the right places at the right time. He witnessed the rise of Hitler, Stalin's battles to oust his competitors, and later, the purge trials of the 1930's. Building his knowledge of the factors by which Soviet practices operated, at long last he got the opportunity to inform U.S. leaders about what he thought was essential to understand and respond to the Soviet challenge. His famous "long telegram," sent in eight parts, was avidly read by Secretary of Defense Forrestal and others. Forrestal circulated the telegram within the Defense Department, and Kennan became an instant celebrity. Secretary of State George Marshall named Kennan Director of the Policy Planning Staff, and the studies he directed became important contributions to the making of U.S. policy. Although he became known as the originator of U.S. "containment policy," Kennan later stated his regret that he had not made it clearer that he did not mean that military force should be the only or primary means of containing the Soviets.
Despite his fame, Kennan remained an independent thinker, but often he was not in tune with U.S. leaders. Realizing this, and uneasy that he could not get Marshall, Acheson and others to accept his views more broadly, Kennan chose to leave the Foreign Service and to return to Princeton, this time as a senior scholar/researcher. He remained a prolific writer, completing two volumes on U.S.-Soviet Relations 1917-1920 and several other noteworthy books. This volume, Memoirs 1925-1950 serves as the best introduction to his thought and accomplishments, and provides valuable insights into U.S. diplomatic operations of the time and period it covers.
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152 for sure it will fit you perfectly it will be nice and buttery for your jibbing and still be able to take it off smaller jump like 20- 40 feet, any bigger and it might get a little unstable and you could have trouble holding an edge on the bigger jumps... hope that helped
I would say 155 for park/ Urban and 157 for all mountain, free ride, and powder....Hope that helped
like 190lbs is over what i would recommend but even 180lbs might be on the heavy side for how soft this board is... so about 180 is the top of the weight range the 156 can handle... hope that helped
id say 115 would be better then a 125 a 125 would be way to big..... yes your Custom's will fit...... and this board has amazing pop to quote the guy below me "Heck yeah it does! You'll be like BOING-G-G-G-G!!!!"...... hope that helped
Its a great park board i'm 6'1" and 160lbs and i jib with the 152 all day and it can handle some smaller jumps as well but mostly jib..... hope that helped
Well i think that you would have some over hang but if you really want this board you could make it work but you would need stance angles that are huge like 20 or bigger.... with a size 13 you should probably look more at the Wide or Mid Wide snowboards because you got to think a size 12 foot is approximately 30cm and the waist width is 26 cm so a 13 is even larger you would have some over hang..... I hope that Helped
The Status is a higher quality liner and a little stiffer then the Judge boot also they are a little lighter
Yes they should work if you have the plate that changes it from a 3 Screw to a 4 Screw System.... because all burton bindings are a 3 hole system..... i don't know if dog funk still is but at the start of the season they were offering the 4 screw plates for free with purchase of a burton binding....if you need to get a four screw system plate call this number 1(800) 881-3138 hope that helped
Yes.... Yes it does heres the link to the GNU web site it'll give you any info you will need on this board http://www.gnu.com/snowboards/street-series/.... hope that helped
Well its not terrible for riding switch and it is amazing for switch..... if you need examples of that just watch Shawn White ride in the pipe last year he was amazing and this was the exact model he was riding but if you want some thing that is the exact same riding switch and regular look for a board that is "True Twin" if the boards description has True Twin it will have no difference riding switch and Regular. This board also has a vary small set back so its flex patterns through out the board are set up to ride with the nose first but by no means does that mean you can't ride switch on it at all...... hope that helped
Ok Well I know someone who put Forum's on this board i don't know if they were republics though but im thinking if one Forum pair fit they all should.... but if you don't want to risk it i would highly recommend the Union Contacts they fit this board and they are (in my opinion) the best bindings out there right now and Thats what i have on this board so I'm sure they will fit...... hope that helped
Yes they will
Yes all Iridium Lens are at least Simi- Reflective, the Fire and Black iridium lens are completely reflective
11.5 DC is "true to size" witch means your shoe size is your boot size... when you get them they might feel a little small but all DC boots pack out around a half size...... hope that helped
I rock the Rome 390 boss in the blue and white and they great on this board.... the blues don't match the best but they still look good
its not terrible the biggest problem i have with it is that it is vary heavy i would look at the DC PBJ, Stepchild Jib Stick or Rome Artifact for that kind of riding
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Volume XV
Lear in the Country Near Dover
by Peter Cummings
Shakespeare on Film and Television
by H. R. Coursen
Mother's Word and The Comedy of Errors: Notes
Toward a Constitution of Shakespearean Patriarchy
by Douglas Green
The Psychology of Primacy and Recency Effects
Upon Audience Response in Twelfth Night
by James Lake
Measure for Measure and Law Reform in
by Alan Powers
Chaucer in Shakespeare: The Case of The
Nun's Priest's Tale and Troilus and Cressida
by Lewis Walker
Anti-Theatricalism and Revolutionary Desire in Hamlet
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"The Heart of the Mystery":
Emblematic Revelation in the Hamlet Play Scene
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Othello's Bianca: Climbing Out of the
Bed of Patriarchy
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Suppressed Design in Shakespeare's Sonnets:
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Montague or Capulet? Romeo and Juliet:
III. i. 84
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William Kemp as "Upstart Crow"
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Fall 2012 Courses & Descriptions
Political Science Expanded Course Descriptions Fall Term 2012
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PS 201, Section 001 INTRODUCTION TO U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 4 credits
Instructor: Rorie Solberg
This course explores the ideas, institutions, processes and behavior that constitute the national political life of the United States. Topics include the Constitution, Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, the courts, civil rights and liberties, federalism, parties, interest groups, media, and elections. We will look at how these elements contribute to the exercise of politics as well as how they affect two core values of American political life; liberty and equality. We will examine some domestic and foreign policy issues that have been instrumental in shaping American politics. This course will involve lecture, discussion, group work, and debate. (Bacc Core/Social Sciences course)
PS 204 INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS 4 credits
Instructor: Tamas Golya
This course examines the political systems of major democracies, authoritarian regimes, and those of countries making transitions toward democracy. In order to understand how each political system works, four subject areas are studied: the impact of the past; key institutions; political processes; and political economy. (Bacc Core/Social Sciences Course)
PS 205 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 4 credits
Instructor: David Bernell
Introduction to International Relations examines the relations among states and non-state actors around the world. The course will look at the history behind current international relations, the major concepts and theories that inform and explain international relations, and significant issues that occupy contemporary nation-states, such as globalization, intervention, trade and development, the UN and international law, terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, and the rise of China. (Bacc Core/Social Sciences Course)
PS 206 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THOUGHT 4 credits
Instructor: TBD
Introduction to political philosophy. Major ideas and issues of selected political thinkers. (Bacc Core/Humanities Course)
PS 321 AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 4 credits
Instructor: Rorie Solberg
The Supreme Court's work from 1789 to 1876; origins of judicial power, issues of federalism, contracts clause, status of blacks, women, and Native Americans. (PS 321, PS 322, and PS 323 form a sequence, though each course may be taken independently.) PREREQS: PS 201
PS 341 POLITICS OF WESTERN EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION 4 credits
Instructor: Alison Johnston
Describes and analyzes the political situation in Europe and the European Union. Special focus is given to issues concerning European security and the European Union, its institutions, politics, and the challenges it faces since the opening of Europe to the East. PREREQS: PS 204
PS 345 POLITICS OF DEVELOPING NATIONS 4 credits
Instructor: Doug Clark
This course introduces the political economy of 'development' in the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America within the context of the globalization of capitalism. The class provides students with an overview of the colonial history of these regions, the liberation struggles leading to the emergence of more than 140 new nations in the Twentieth Century, the 'modernizing strategies' initiated by former colonizers and the US, and the contemporary political and economic characteristics of this 'developing' world. The central focus is on the various strategies proposed and implemented in an effort to overcome the endemic poverty and political instability that entraps a majority of the world's citizens. Topics include: NAFTA, migration, civil war, foreign aid, appropriate technology, micro-finance, and sustainability. (Bacc Core/Non-Western Culture) PREREQS: PS 204
PS 361 CLASSICAL POLITICAL THOUGHT 4 credits
Instructor: TBD
Major political theorists from the pre-Socratics through the Scholastics. (H) PREREQS: PS 206
PS 399 CURRENT PROBLEMS: CAUSES OF WAR AND PEACE 4 credits
Instructor: Tamas Golya
This course on international security explores established and evolving theories on the causes of war and peace. These causes can be found on the individual, state, interstate and global level of analysis, and reflect insights from related disciplines such as history, sociology, psychology and game theory. Students will also learn how to examine the evidence for and against these theories. While the explanation of specific conflicts plays a prominent role in this class, it is equally important to explain the long-term trends towards peace in some parts of the world. PREREQS: PS 205
PS 400 POLITICAL ANALYSIS 4 credits
Lecture: CRN 13663, Section 001 W 10:00-11:50 & F 10:00-10:50
Lab: CRN 13664 Section 010 F 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Hubbard
This course is designed to introduce students into the methodology or theory of research and then instruct them how to apply the methodologies through the conducting of statistical tests used by sociologists and political scientists today. This course include lectures and information on ethics and politics involved in research, theoretical frameworks, political paradigms, the conceptualization and operationalization of variables, designing research studies, sampling, data collection methods, and data analysis. This should allow for students not only to conduct their own research but become adept at the deciphering of studies conducted and published by all forms of media.
Each student must sign up for one lab and lecture session. Within the lab, SPSS software will be used to instruct students on the creation of data sets and the manipulation of previously collected data sets. Each week will contain one hour of lab work in which the instructor will give a short lecture and examples of statistical tests and expectations of written assessments of those tests. Students will be required to use blackboard for the submission of assignments as well as their ONID account information for the use of laboratory computers. This course is restricted to Political Science majors only, and the No-Show/Drop policy will be enforced.
PS 475 ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY 4 credits
Instructor: Ed Weber
Over the past 40 years, numerous agencies and public policies have been created that have been instrumental in cleaning up pollution and changing the ways in which natural resources are managed in the U.S. In addition, the American public consistently has supported environmental protection as a policy issue of national importance. Yet in spite of the seeming internalization of environmental values among policymakers and the general public, and despite clear successes cleaning up pollution, the world of environmental, natural resources, and public lands policymaking is beset by widespread pressure for policy reform and institutional reinvention. What is all the fuss about?
This course is designed to answer this question. The course starts by cutting the world of environmental policy along two major dimensions—empirical and theoretical. Within the empirical dimension, the debates over environmental policy focus on the three basic sectors of action—markets, government (hierarchy), and civil society--within which policy is set. For most all of the 20th (and now the 21st) Century, the debate has been a fairly sterile either-or debate between markets and government. Recently, however, more and more policymakers and citizens have become dissatisfied with the ability of either sector to produce effective, long-term results in the environmental policy realm. As a result, a great deal of attention has been directed toward the civil society sector (including the role of non-profits) and the idea of bringing society back in as critical elements in effective, long-term policy solutions. Which sector is best suited for solving public policy problems? Is there a "best" sector, or a "best" combination of sectors that will help us alleviate environmental policy problems? This seminar examines the arguments for the different sectors of action, and the promise and peril associated with each, although the contemporary push for innovation and new methods of attacking the environmental problematique will occupy most of our intellectual effort.
Understanding the empirical dimension requires exploration of the theoretical dimension. It is theory that helps to frame the world around us, gives us the intellectual tools for understanding its many dimensions, and exposes us to the assumptions regarding human behavior that are often directly connected to policy choices (whether consciously or not). A good grasp of theory can also help us sort through scholarly readings and give us the kind of broader understanding of policy debates that can be applied to the political/policy dynamic found in domains beyond environmental policy. Week 1 will help us frame this dimension so that we are all on the same page (i.e., so that political scientists and non-political scientists alike can converse together).
The objective of the course is to provide future political scientists (especially those with an emphasis in American politics, public administration, and public policy), policy analysts, urban and regional planners, environmental scientists, and natural resource/ public lands scientists and managers with a critical, broad overview of the changing world of environmental/ natural resources institutions and approaches to the environmental problematique. Students will not only develop an appreciation for the connection between the way we organize and control institutions and ultimate policy outcomes, they will develop critical insights into the connections between politics and policy administration--an important lesson for future public managers, environmental scientists, planners, and scholars. PREREQS: PS 201
PS 499 SPECIAL TOPIC: POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 4 credits
Instructor: Amy Below
This course will introduce students to the politics surrounding global climate change from both a domestic and international perspective. Topics will include city, state and national attention to the issue as well as the roles presidents, Congress, the Supreme Court, corporations and media have played in formulating and evaluating climate change policy. The class will also focus on the international and geopolitical aspects of climate change, including discussion of international conventions and treaties, the tension between developed and developing nations and possible impacts to environmental and national security. Note: This class does NOT fulfill the Capstone/WIC requirement for the major. PREREQS: PS 205


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Kim Kardashian Adopts a Baby!!!by Hilton Hater at . Comments
On last night's episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York, Kim Kardashian spent a bulk of the episode pretending to cry over her naked spread in W.
But the reality star has a major reason to be happy this morning: she's a new mother!!!
As confirmed by this random tabloid, Kim has gone against her family's wishes and adopted an African-American child. It's surprising the mainstream media has not reported on the story, but we all know how much Kardashian likes to keep her private life private.
Editor's note: if you believe a word of this cover story, you likely also believe that Kim, Khloe and Kourtney actually write their own blogs and that Charlie Sheen will exit rehab a changed man.
OMG Kim I can't believe your adopting, the baby is adorable,you don't have to regret it because I know you,ll be a great mother,
P.S I love you sooooooooooooooooooo much, and I've seen every episode of ever season of keeping up with the kardashians
To "me" someone should give you a ticket to the moon so you could not annoy anyone anymore with your stupidity. Her name is Kourtney and not Kourt and she does nit talk babytalk. Grow up
I so dont believe this story, yeah kim is a totally nice and sweet person that would help anyone who needs it but adopt i dont think so at least not yet.
I dont believe dat story at all i mean common get real
Congrats to kim
i don't either i think its good to adopt look what nicole k and sandra doing and other celebs trying to say life
Well i had the chance to see them all in Dash Miami and had the chance to meet Kris, i would say underneath it all they are all good people and even if people say that Kim adopted the baby for the wrong reasons she is saving a life, i actually have nothing bad to say about this, im actually proud of the new mom!
well if this is true i think thats good for her because she can't keep a man for a long time so many this is good for her and the baby sandra did it why not kim
For Kim K. any and all photo ops will do!!
Wish someone would give the bimbo a oneway ticket to the moon.take the other baby talkin ditz kourt with her.


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Health Sciences at Laurier
The Health Sciences program at Laurier is designed for students interested in pursuing postgraduate opportunities in health-related fields, such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy and veterinary medicine.
Students approach the study of health through a combination of fundamental courses in biology, chemistry, psychology and math, as well as applied health courses. Exposure to health-care practitioners and applied researchers lend relevance and scope to the academic curriculum.
Program highlights
- Students may choose a generalist stream or may elect to focus in one of the applied areas of specialization (Bio-Med, Med-Chem or Med-Psych).
- Students gain hands-on laboratory and practical experiences through field placement components integrated into senior health sciences courses.
- Health Sciences utilizes Lauriers Community Service-Learning (CSL) program allowing students to engage directly in theory-to-practice experience.
- Through a case-based learning approach in several senior courses, students are introduced to the pedagogical method used by many health-allied professional programs
Course offering
- Research Methods for Health Science
- Human Anatomy
- Organic Chemistry I : Fundamentals
- Cell and Modular Biology
Admission requirements
|4U Requirements
|IB Requirements
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English at 60%;
Advanced Functions at 60%
Biology at 60%;
Chemistry at 60%
*Combined minimum average of 75% in 4U Math & Science courses
HL or SL English at 4;
HL or SL Biology at 4;
HL or SL Chemisty at 4;
HL or SL Mathematics at 4
Low - mid 80s
IB Minimum score: 30
Health Science graduates can take further studies in graduate health sciences programs or in professional programs, including:
- medicine
- dentistry
- education
- health administration
- pharmacy
- physiotherapy
- veterinary medicine
The program is specifically designed to allow students the opportunity to meet the course requirements for health-allied post-graduate programs such as:
- chiropractic
- occupational therapy
- speech pathology
- optometry
- respiration therapy
- MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test)
- DAT (Dentistry College Admissions Test)
- OAT (Optometry Admissions Test)
Student experience
Allyson Cowie, now a third-year Health Sciences student, was excited to start studying at Laurier. For her, it was the combination of sciences, health studies and electives that made Cowie choose Laurier. The opportunities that come with the Health Sciences program, as well as being a Laurier student, are truly amazing, she says, At Laurier, everyone wants to see others succeed.
According to Cowie, Laurier is more than an educational institution; its a community full of positive energy and great people. Its also a place where you discover more than science, you can find your path to success. For me, my time in Health Sciences so far has been a challenging and rewarding journey, one that I cant wait to continue."
Cowie plans to follow the Bio-Med Specialization within Health Sciences. Upon graduation she hopes to attend medical school in pursuit of a career in pediatric medicine.
Faculty experience
The one aspect I like most about Wilfrid Laurier University is that we teach and work in an environment that readily provides us with the opportunity to get to know our students, says Dr. Renée MacPhee, a professor in the Health Sciences program.
MacPhee is one of the first to be appointed to a tenure track position as assistant professor in the recently created Health Sciences program. She completed her PhD in Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo. In addition, she has taught at Laurier since 2004 in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education with research interests in the area of emergency health-care.
In order to adequately prepare students for careers in the field of health sciences, one must be readily able to address all facets of health, she says. Using community links like the Region of Waterloo Public Health Department, Region of Waterloo EMS and other services as well as field trips to the Ontario Science Centre, MacPhee is able to bring the reality of the health field into the classroom.
These experiences create a living classroom, provide salient experiential learning experiences, and provide students with opportunities they might not otherwise have to learn about the world in which we live.


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No.221 Jiefang Road CHN - 310007 Hangzhou
Prix from : 289 CNY
Ideally situated only 20 metres from Southern Song Imperial Street, SSAW Hubin Hotel is a 6-minute stroll from Hangzhou's iconic West Lake. It offers exclusive free parking privileges and chic rooms with free internet access and flat-screen cable TVs..
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No.28, Hubing Road CHN - 310006 Hangzhou
Prix from : 1120 CNY
4 Zhejiang Media Hotel
No. 18 Changsheng Road CHN - 310006 Hangzhou
Prix from : 398 CNY
Located in Shangcheng District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Media Hotel is a 5-minute stroll from the stunning West Lake. The non-smoking property houses Lavipeditum Health Care Centre, 2 dining options and free wired internet access. Zhejiang Media Hotel ..
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No.2, Pinghai Road CHN - 310006 Hangzhou
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Located a 5-minute stroll from West Lake, Hangzhou Bokai Boutique Hotel features comfy accommodation with free wired internet access. It offers a tour desk which helps guests make travel arrangements and provides ticketing services. Free private park..
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Just one km from the scenic West Lake, St. Rich Hotel offers modern accommodation in the West Lake District. Relaxing foot massage, free internet and free parking are available. Hotel St. Rich is 1.5 km from Hangzhou Train Station. Xiaoshan Internat..
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Hangzhou Aumonter Hotel is located just a 2-minute stroll from the stunning West Lake. It houses 2 dining options and elegant accommodation with free Wi-Fi. Hangzhou Aumonter Hotel is a 6-minute drive from Hangzhou Railway Station, an 8-minute driv..
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The Patriots added a pair of players to their roster on Monday, signing wide receiver Mark Harrison and kicker David Ruffer, according to the league transaction wire.
Harrison is a 6-foot-3, 231-pounder from Rutgers who had an up-and-down career as a collegian. In 2010, Harrison had 44 catches for 829 yards and nine touchdowns, which included a game against Cincinnati where he finished with 10 catches for 240 yards and four touchdowns.
Those numbers dropped way off in 2011 — perhaps due to a head injury — all the way to 14 catches for 274 yards. Those numbers went back up again last year when he had 44 receptions for 583 yards and six touchdowns. He becomes the fourth former Rutgers player to be picked up this offseason by the Patriots.
As for Ruffer, he is a 6-foot-1, 193-pounder from Notre Dame who converted 18 of his 19 field-goal attempts in 2010, including a 7-for-7 stretch from beyond 40 yards. A 2010 Lou Groza Award finalist, he connected on his first 23 career field goal attempts as a collegian ' an Irish record.
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Two things come to mind, assuming it's true. Where are we going to STORE all that data, and how do you animate it.
Watch this Vid around the 6 minute mark. Talk about algorithmns and such
yep.. looks really cool - now if one could just build things by thinking of it instead of using those pesky 3d programs *lol*
If it can be rendered in real-time, then the size of the data must be manageable—it still has to be pushed through the limited RAM of the computer, so clearly they aren't doing something like using Cartesian coordinates for each point in the cloud, like polygonal models currently use.
As for animation, from the sound of it, the artists' workflow isn't going to change—they'll still create a polygonal model, rig, and animate it, but they won't have the same polygon count restrictions that games normally have. It looks like the conversion to "atoms" occurs just prior to render, but after all of the animation is done.
The big issue with getting this technology out into the world is that rendering engines will have to be rebuilt from the ground up, and that's going to take some time.
I expect, though, that where we'll see some big impact from this tech relatively soon is in particle effects and fluid simulations. Of course, without knowing exactly what's "under the hood," it's hard to know exactly what's going to become possible.
edit: thanks for that other video, NK; it changes the way I was thinking about things, and it proves that I need to type faster, since there were two replies before I finished mine!
So since it's essentially a level-of-detail trick, nothing changes for dynamics simulations—you still can't have millions of points without the associated calculations slowdowns.
And storage of the data may, indeed, be a problem. I don't fancy having to buy and store a terabyte hard drive for each game I play in the future!
well, it probably would be a terrabyte flashdrive instead.. with the game pre-installed - plug and PLAY ;)
So it sounds like it's essentially a form of spacial indexing. That just amplifies the problems of space and animation. You not only need space to store each point, you need space to store the index. For stock animation you need a 4 dimensional point cloud and index, for generated animation you need to generate the points and compute the index with each frame.
Now I wouldn't have thought it would be practical to make a spatial index that supports such quick perspective based lookups either so it may be they do have solutions to these problems, but until I get some independent reports including data on storage and animation, I'm going to be skeptical.
Refering to the video's explanation the system will only display as many points as the resolution affords. So talking about an resolution of e.g. 1280x1024 this would be ~1.3 million points per frame (or more with an higher res). Without question, this is possible.
If the algorithm they are using is able to convert classic polygon models into cloud data in real time, bringing them onto the screen or uses any system which generates them out of data of less size than the actual storing of all those points on a hard drive would afford - it could be possible. I am thinking of that one scene where the camera flies around this statue of an elephant, there he's saying they are currently working on speeding up the fps, which might be a hint, that the algorithm produces those visible points while searching the index you mentioned before in real time.
So what I am trying to say is: Perhaps the overall size of the data storred on youd HDD isn't that exorbitant - it is their algorithm generating the unlimited detail environment shooing the points through your RAM.
Correct me if I am wrong as I am thinking about this with my limited logical imagination - this system is uncoupled from any former approach.
Lastly, if all this is true and managable - this will push a lot of things to a next level.
Converting polygon data on the fly would be pointless as that in itself couldn't really be any faster or more detailed than existing polygon scanline rasterization techniques, and you would still need to store and index all that data before you could search it. The conversion algorithm would have to be magic to be able to take a mesh and turn it into a point cloud with more detail than the mesh, or to make the conversion.
Also the description in the video was that the point cloud data is what is being stored right down to the level of what would ship with the game. That's what all the stuff about scanning in rocks was about. The rock exists as point cloud data, not a mesh that is converted to a point cloud.
Mhm, I see.
I guess I better throw my thoughts overboard as they are not based on proper knowledge ;-)
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TUESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Children and teens who spend twice as much time playing organized sports -- especially a single sport -- than they do in free play are more likely to be injured, according to new research.
"These injuries are purely from the amount of exposure without sufficient rest periods," said lead study author Dr. Neeru Jayanthi. "They're performing at adult levels in a child's body -- in a young, developing body. The constant use of the same parts of the body puts the same stress on the same part of the body over and over again.
"We looked at how much organized sports kids were playing compared to how much they played for fun," added Jayanthi, medical director of primary-care sports medicine at Loyola University Health System, in Chicago. "When that ratio got above 1.9 to 1 [favoring organized sports], the risk of injury went up."
The study included more than 1,200 children between the ages of 8 and 18. Slightly more than half were boys, and about two-thirds of the group had sustained an injury.
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The rate at which children or teens were growing didn't appear to have an impact on injury risk, according to the study.
The researchers found that athletes spending more time focusing on one sport were more likely to have been injured. This was true even after the researchers adjusted the data to account for age and more hours engaged in activity per week.
Children who spent more hours per week engaged in physical activity than their age were also more likely to be injured, according to the study. That means if your child is 10, he or she shouldn't participate in more than 10 hours of physical activity weekly -- including both organized sports and free play, Jayanthi said.
Jayanthi was scheduled to present the study's findings Monday at an American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Dr. Dennis Cardone, chief of primary-care sports medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, said overuse injuries crop up more often with increased sports specialization.
"Growing up, most people who are parents now went out to the park with their friends and played multiple sports throughout the year," Cardone said. "Without a coach or parents telling them what to do, kids will stop when they want to."
In addition to avoiding overuse injuries, Cardone said, it's important for kids to have time to develop their social skills and spend time just being a kid. "If you're specializing in a sport multiple hours a day, you may be missing out on being a kid," he said.
"The likelihood that any child is going to be the next Serena Williams is small," he said. "And specializing too early may cause harm. Physically and emotionally, there are consequences."
Jayanthi agreed. "In today's world, specialization may be necessary if you want to get a college scholarship, but don't start specializing until mid-adolescence or later," he said. "Early introduction to sports is fine, but don't specialize until later."
If your child is specializing in a sport, Cardone said, try to limit their involvement to three or four days a week at most, and to just seven or eight months a year. "They need time away from the sport," he said.
Jayanthi said doctors are encouraging athletes to limit the number of months they compete during the year. "Even professional athletes don't compete all year," he said.
Both experts encouraged parents to send their kids out for more free play.
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SOURCES: Neeru Jayanthi, M.D., medical director, primary-care sports medicine, Loyola University Health System, Chicago; Dennis Cardone, D.O., chief, primary-care sports medicine, department of orthopedic surgery, and director, concussion program, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City; Oct. 28, 2013, presentation, American Academy of Pediatrics meeting, Orlando, Fla.
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