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Participating Faculty
Quantitative Mentor | Life Sciences Mentor | Quantitative Mentor | Life Sciences Mentor |
Edwards: Epi | Eaton: EOHS | Heagerty: Biostat | Checkoway: EOHS |
Kerr: Biostat | Kronmal: Biostat | Faustman: EOHS | |
Ruzzo: Comp Sci | Gallagher: EOHS | Sampson: Stat | Goss: Medicine |
Weir: Biostat | Kavanagh: EOHS | Sheppard: Biostat | Kaufman: EOHS |
Thornton: Biostat | King: Medicine | Szpiro: Biostat | Vedal: EOHS |
Wakefield: Biostat | Nickerson: Genome | Wakefield: Biostat | Psaty: Epi |
Rosenfeld: EOHS | Van Hee: EOHS | ||
Xia: EOHS | |||
Zhang: Pathology | |||
Faustman: EOHS |
Faculty Information:
Lianne Sheppard, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics with a joint appointment in EOHS. Her research interests focus on statistical methods for environmental and occupational epidemiology and include study design and estimation of environmental exposure effects. She actively collaborates on EHS projects, including Kaufman's DISCOVER Center, Vedal's NIEHS-funded study of air pollution sources and health, and Goss's NIEHS-funded cystic fibrosis and air pollution study. By her research funding, she has mentored 12 biostatistics students as they became engaged in environmental health applications. She has served as advisor or committee member for 11 PhD students in six departments, including Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Environmental Health, mentored 3 post docs, and advised many additional masters students. Dr. Sheppard is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of two Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Special Panels (Ozone, and NOx & Sox). She is co-author on a 2007 New England Journal of Medicine paper estimating the risk in post-menopausal women of long-term air pollution exposure on cardiovascular disease incidence and has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in EHS areas. Dr. Sheppard will have 5% dedicated departmental funding to administer this Training Program.
Bruce Weir, Ph.D., assumed the position of Professor and Chair in the Department of Biostatistics and Adjunct Professor in Genome Sciences on January 1, 2006. Prior to that he was the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Genetics at North Carolina State University. He acted as Director of the Bioinformatics Research Center and as Coordinator of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at NC State. In the latter capacity he worked with a program of 55 graduate students and 30 faculty spread over five colleges and 12 departments. He directed a NIEHS T32 for graduate training in bioinformatics that was renewed in 2005. He has directed the thesis research of over 20 PhD students and has mentored 15 post-doctoral students. He served a four-year term on the NIGMS panel that reviewed T32 applications, and he recently completed a term on the scientific advisory panel for the National Toxicology Program of NIEHS. He has R01 funding from NIGMS to support his research in statistical genetics. Recently he has been involved with the analysis of very large SNP datasets. He is the author of the textbook "Genetic Data Analysis" and over 160 publications in statistical genetics.
Harvey Checkoway is Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of EOHS (primary) and Epidemiology. Dr. Checkoway's research and teaching interests focus on environmental and occupational epidemiology. His research has spanned a wide array of topics, including environmental and occupational risk factors for cancer, non-malignant respiratory diseases, and neurological disorders. He teaches the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology course (ENVH/EPI 570) annually. He has been Program Director of the EME training grant since its inception in 1990 and is PI on the NIEHS-funded Superfund Basic Research Program Project since 1998, and PI on a NIEHS R01 on gene/environment interactions in Parkinson's disease. He has belonged to the scientific advisory panel for the National Toxicology Program of NIEHS.
David Eaton is Professor of EOHS and Public Health Genetics, adjunct Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, and Associate Vice Provost for Research at the University of Washington. A UW faculty member since 1979, Dr. Eaton has provided major leadership in the development of EHS research and training at the UW (see Section A.4.1.). His interests focus on gene-environment interactions, particularly diet and cancer. This includes a 17-year NIEHS R01 grant to investigate the molecular basis for species differences in susceptibility to the potent human hepatocarcinogen, aflatoxin B1. His research program has focused on understanding the importance of genetic variation in both phase I and phase II biotransformation of carcinogens in humans, and how natural and synthetic chemicals in the diet can modify carcinogen disposition. His current research program is focused on the molecular mechanisms by which certain naturally occurring phytochemicals alter expression of genes involved in drug and carcinogen metabolism. He is Director of the NIEHS Core Center, Co-PI of the NIEHS-funded FHCRC/UW Toxicogenomics Research Consortium, and PI on a 7-year NIEHS K-12 Education grant. He also serves as an Associate Director of the NCI-funded Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Consortium between the UW and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (PI, Lee Hartwell). He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and over 40 reviews and book chapters in EHS.
Karen L. Edwards, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health Genetics (IPHG). She is a genetic epidemiologist whose primary research focuses on the use of multivariate approaches to define phenotypes for complex diseases. Dr. Edwards has extensive expertise in the design, collection, and statistical analyses of family data and has participated in two large family studies of CVD and Diabetes in Japanese American families. She is currently funded by NIEHS for Etiology of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, is PI of an American Diabetes Association (ADA) study, and has directed the CDC funded UW Center for Genomics and Public Health (UWCGPH) since 2001. Dr. Edwards has chaired ten Masters and four doctoral committees, and has mentored two post-doctoral fellows.
Elaine M. Faustman, Ph.D., is Professor of EOHS, and Director, NIEHS/EPA Center for Child Environmental Health and the NIEHS/NSF Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Sciences. Dr. Faustman is a toxicologist with substantial expertise in mechanisms of reproductive and developmental toxicology. In addition to her laboratory-based research, Dr. Faustman has been one of the leaders in the development of risk assessment methods for developmental hazards. She is widely recognized nationally and internationally as leader in environmental health sciences, and currently serves on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council and numerous other national and international advisory boards.
Evan Gallagher, Ph.D., is currently the Sheldon D. Murphy Professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the NIEHS-sponsored University of Washington Superfund Basic Sciences Research program. His scope of work is directed toward an understanding of the role of genetics and biochemistry of oxidative defense and biotransformation enzyme expression in individual, developmental, and species differences in susceptibility to environmental chemicals. His current research program includes NIEHS-funded studies targeting the mechanisms of environmental chemical-mediated olfactory injury in Pacific salmon, and includes comparative genomic studies in Pacific salmon and zebrafish. He also holds an NOAA-external oceans and human health grant for studies using human primary fetal hematopoietic cstem cells and zebrafish to understand the mechanisms of polybrominated diphenyl ether developmental toxicity. He serves on the editorial boards of Toxicological Sciences and Environmental Research and has 56 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters and 115 research presentations. Dr. Gallagher has served as academic adviser for 8 graduate students, 6 postdoctoral researchers, and has served on the graduate committee of over 20 graduate students.
Christopher H. Goss, M.D., M.Sc., is Associate Professor of Medicine. He is a pulmonary and critical care physician and an epidemiologist. His research focus has been on the impact of ambient air pollution and its effect on lung health in patients with cystic fibrosis. He is funded by both the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the NIEHS to assess the impact of ambient air pollution on longitudinal lung function and pulmonary exacerbation rate in children with cystic fibrosis in the United States. This research will provide the basis for modeling longitudinal lung function data in children with cystic fibrosis. The health effects of ambient air pollutant will then be assessed using this model. Dr. Goss has worked extensively in the field of cystic fibrosis epidemiology. He currently chairs the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry and is co-director of the clinical research training tract in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He has over 40 publications in the field of clinical epidemiology and cystic fibrosis.
Patrick Heagerty, Ph.D., is Professor and Associate Chair of Biostatistics. He is an expert in statistical methods for longitudinal and correlated data. His current research interests include semi-parametric regression and estimating equations, marginal models, and random effects models for longitudinal data, dependence modeling for categorical time series, and hierarchical models for categorical spatial data. His recently funded research (competitive renewal pending) included EHS applications to demonstrate new statistical methodology. Dr. Heagerty is co-author of an influential textbook on longitudinal data and is Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Joel Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of EOHS, Professor of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology. His research is on environmental risk factors for cardiovascular disease. He is Principal Investigator of the NIEHS DISCOVER Center and the MESA Air Pollution Study. He is head of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program in the EOHS and the Department of Medicine. He directs a state-of-the-art diesel exhaust controlled exposure facility, which serves as the basis for NIEHS and EPA funded projects on air pollution and cardiovascular diseases, including Dr. Rosenfeld's Diesel Exhaust and Atherosclerotic Plaque Stability and his Effect of Diesel Exhaust Exposures on Endothelial Function in Humans. His is the recipient of an NIEHS Mid-Career Investigator Award on Environmental Factors in Cardiovascular Disease, which emphasizes mentoring junior investigators in patient-oriented research. He is also an attending physician at the UW General Internal Medicine Center and the Harborview Medical Center Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic.
Terrance Kavanagh, Ph.D., is Professor of EOHS and Associate Director of the NIEHS CEEH where he also heads the Analytical Cytology Core. His research involves in vitro toxicology, analytical cytology, and transgenic cell and mouse techniques with emphasis on free radical biology, immunotoxicology, and genetic toxicology. He is PI of the NIEHS-funded Effects-Related Biomarkers of Toxic Exposure: Glutathione perturbations with toxic exposures to study the effects of chemicals on glutathione biosynthesis, with the ultimate goal utilizing glutathione biosynthesis as an integrative, effects-related biomarker of toxic chemical exposure.
Kathleen Kerr, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the NIEHS-funded CEEH Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Facility Core. She is also an investigator with the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium and the UW NHLBI-funded Center for Gene Expression Analysis in Mammalian Cell Biology. The focus of her research is in statistical genetics, in particular the design and analysis of gene expression microarray experiments. Dr. Kerr has been the first or senior author on a dozen methodological publications related to microarrays, as well as several book chapters. She has established a national reputation for her contributions to the field.
Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., is Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine (Medical Genetics). Dr. King's lab uses experimental and bioinformatics genomics tools to study complex human conditions. Her primary areas of interest are inherited breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness, and complex neurological diseases including autism and schizophrenia. Her goals are to identify and characterize critical genes in informative families and populations. She is interested in disentangling heterogeneous genetic influences and understanding the interaction between genetic and environmental influences on these traits. Her lab also applies genomic sequencing to the identification of victims of human rights abuses. She is PI of a NIEHS-funded grant.
Richard Kronmal, Ph.D., is Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics and Director of the Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center. He has been deeply involved in both cardiovascular research and the training of pre-doctoral and post-doctoral graduate students for almost 30 years. He is the PI for several coordinating centers funded by NIH, including several that have funded ancillary studies with an EHS focus. This includes the MESA Coordinating Center, the parent study for the MESA Air study. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, has served as an expert consultant to the FDA, and is a sought-after expert on the administration and conduct of multi-center clinical trials and cohort studies.
Deborah A. Nickerson, Ph.D., is Professor of Genome Sciences. Dr. Nickerson's research is focused on the development and application of technologies to identify and genotype single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human genome and she is PI of the NIEHS SNP Discovery grant. Her group has performed association studies on human quantitative traits and studied approaches to selection of SNPs for genotyping across the human genome. Current projects include the identification and application of genetic variation in mapping human complex traits and disease susceptibility related to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and inflammation.
Bruce Psaty, M.D., is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services. He co-directs the Cardiovascular Health Research Unit which collaborates on epidemiologic studies, many of which have environmental relevance or have funded EHS ancillary studies. His research interests include pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacogenetics in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. He is involved in genome-wide association studies including the GENEVA study of gene-environment interactions. He has been awarded the University of Washington Outstanding Public Service award for work on drug safety.
Michael E. Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is Professor of EOHS, Pathology, and Interim Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences. Dr. Rosenfeld conducts research on the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, the primary cause of most forms of cardiovascular disease. His focus is on the role of inflammatory mechanisms in the disease process. Recently his work has incorporated the contribution of the environment, in the form of diet, hormones, drugs, respiratory infection and air pollution, on the advanced, clinically relevant stages of atherosclerosis in transgenic animal models. He is a member of the NIEHS-funded CEEH and has funding from the NIEHS to investigate the effects of diesel exhaust on atherosclerosis.
Walter L. (Larry) Ruzzo, Ph.D., is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and member of the NIEHS-funded CEEH. His research is focused on development of computational methods and tools applicable to practical problems in molecular biology such as the analysis of gene expression array data. His group has been investigating clustering algorithms, techniques for validating clustering results, and inference of tissue classification and other biological information from expression data. Sequence analysis problems such as computational gene prediction are also areas of active interest. Recent work has focused on methods for finding non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes. His group has developed new techniques for inference of and sequence searching with covariance models, a leading approach for modeling ncRNA gene families. The inferred models show high sensitivity and specificity and the search tools typically accelerate searches by 100 fold or more with (probably) no loss in accuracy. Application of these tools to genome-scale analysis and discovery of new ncRNA families are both underway. Students have been deeply involved in and critical to the success of all stages of all of these projects.
Paul D. Sampson, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Statistics, Director of the Statistical Consulting Program in the Department of Statistics, and Senior Statistician for projects at the Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit of the UW. His primary research is on spatio-temporal and multivariate modeling for environmental processes. He has also developed and applied multivariate methods in the context of studies of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. As a co-investigator on EPA-funded MESA Air study, the HEI-funded NPACT study, and the NIEHS-funded DISCOVER Center, he is developing a spatio-temporal model for air pollution concentration based on a combination of sparse spatial data with rich temporal data and a relatively rich sampling of spatial locations with few time points.
Adam Szpiro, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics. His primary research interest is statistical methods in environmental epidemiology, with a particular focus on air pollution cohort studies. Three interrelated components of his methodology research in this area are: (a) spatio-temporal modeling to predict air pollution concentrations based on irregularly sampled monitoring data, including incorporating the output of physics-based deterministic pollution models and optimizing the implementation to make the model readily applicable to real-world datasets; (b) characterizing the consequences for health effect inference of using predicted air pollution exposures from a spatial or spatio-temporal model in place of the unknown true exposure and developing bootstrap-based measurement error correction methods to ensure valid health effect inference (i.e., correct coverage of confidence intervals); and (c) novel approaches to analyzing acute environmental effects, drawing on ideas in the time-series literature about adjusting for seasonal confounding, but taking advantage of the fact that in a cohort study, short time-scale exposure data tend to be more rich and less variable than the corresponding outcome data. His methodology work is tightly coupled with collaboration on MESA Air, the DISCOVER Center, and other NIH and EPA funded projects. He also work closely with colleagues in Environmental Health and Epidemiology in translating novel statistical methodology into practice and actively consults on a number of projects to assist students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior investigators in applying appropriate statistical techniques for experimental design and data analysis.
Timothy Thornton, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics. His current research focus is on developing statistical methods to seek genetic loci contributing to complex genetic traits. In particular, he has been involved with creating novel methods for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for samples with pedigree and/or population structure, where some or all of this structure may be unknown. He also teaches a course in the applications of statistical methods to human genetics at the University of Washington. This course is offered in the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, as well as in the Institute for Public Health Genetics. He has also been a co-instructor for the module entitled "Population Genetics: Theory and Methods" for the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics in 2009 and 2010 held at the University of Washington.
Victor Van Hee, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, internist, occupational and environmental medicine physician, and an epidemiologist. His primary research interests are the health effects of air pollution, cardiovascular disease, and gene-environment interactions. He is the principal investigator of a NIEHS grant (2010-2015) in which he is investigating the effect of traffic-related air pollution on cardiac structure and function in two large epidemiologic cohorts (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Cardiovascular Health Study). This project takes advantage of recent large-scale genotyping efforts to explore the mechanisms by which air pollution may impact these cardiovascular outcomes. He is also Director of the Occupational Medicine component of the UW NIOSH-funded ERC and the UW Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fellowship training program. He is also an attending physician in the Harborview Medical Center Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic.
Sverre Vedal is Professor in the Department of EOHS. He is a pulmonary physician and an epidemiologist. His primary research interests are health effects of air pollution and occupational lung disease. He has an NIEHS grant (2004-2009) in which he is investigating the sources of short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) that affect mortality, hospitalizations, and asthma control. He also has a large grant (2007-2011) from HEI to investigate long-term exposure effects of specific PM component and sources on cardiovascular disease, and is PI of one of the NIEHS DISCOVER Center projects to investigate gene-environment interactions of PM components and atherosclerosis. All projects put emphasis on improving measurement and estimation of individual exposure for use in population studies. Dr. Vedal continues to serve on NIH study sections and has been a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board's (SAB) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and still serves on CASAC panels. He is also an attending physician in the Harborview Medical Center Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic.
Jonathan Wakefield, Ph.D., is Professor and Acting Chair of Statistics and Professor of Biostatistics. Dr. Wakefield's current research and NIH funding focus upon methods for spatial epidemiology. Many important applications of these methods are in environmental epidemiology. He is particularly interested in ecological studies, and specifically in characterizing ecological bias. Dr. Wakefield has been developing a hybrid study design in which case-control and ecological data are combined. He has also worked on models for disease mapping of incidence/mortality data and has recently published in the field of statistical genetics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Jing Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Pathology and the Shaw Endowed Chair in Neuropathology. Dr. Zhang works on neurodegenerative diseases. His NIEHS R01 grant Proteomic studies in Parkinson's Disease (PD) centers on proteomic identification of novel proteins interacting with -synuclein, thereby modulating the physiological as well as pathological functions of -synuclein. This protein is contained within Lewy bodies that are found in the neurons of PD patients. The work considers the effects of novel proteins on oxidative stress, mitochondrial and proteasomal function, as these processes are implicated in PD pathogenesis.


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St Paul's College, University of Sydney
St Paul's College | ||||||||||
University | University of Sydney | |||||||||
Location | 9 City Road, Camperdown | |||||||||
Full name | St Paul's College | |||||||||
Motto | Deo Patriae Tibi | |||||||||
Motto in English | "For God, Country and Thyself" | |||||||||
Established | 1856 | |||||||||
Named for | Parish of St Paul's, Redfern | |||||||||
Warden | Ivan Head | |||||||||
Undergraduates | 179 | |||||||||
Postgraduates | 18 | |||||||||
Website | stpauls.edu.au |
St Paul's College in Sydney, Australia, is an Anglican residential college for men which is affiliated with the University of Sydney. Founded in 1856 by an 1854 act of the New South Wales Legislative Council, it is Australia's oldest university college. St Paul's is familiarly referred to as "Paul's", its residents as "Paulines" and its alumni as "Old Paulines".
The college has nearly 200 residents, of whom about 150 are undergraduates; the remainder are graduates undertaking further study or holding university positions.[1] It retains most of its original 18-acre (73,000 m2) grant and has its own oval and tennis and basketball courts.[citation needed]
St Paul's was one of the two earliest university colleges in the Australian colonies along with Christ College, Hobart, which was founded in 1846.[2] Its development followed an unsuccessful attempt by members of the Anglican church to incorporate the earlier St James's College within the new University of Sydney, and was led by Sir Alfred Stephen (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales).[3] The college is independent of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, although the warden must be an ordained Anglican clergic. There are 18 fellows, six of whom must be Anglican clergy and 12 laymen. Fellows serve six-year, renewable terms and are elected by graduates of the college who have spent at least three semesters in residence. The Reverend Canon Ivan Head has governed the college as warden since 1995. The college is an independent body corporate, legally designated as "The Warden and Fellows of St Paul's College".[citation needed]
Founded to promote liberal Anglicanism, St Paul's College is the oldest community in Australia possessed of a single continuing intellectual tradition. The on-going liveliness of that tradition and its impact beyond the Church is due to the way old forms are used to engage new energies. It relies on hierarchy but also on collective decision-making, or collegiality. It is therefore extremely well suited to a university college. At St Paul's this tradition shows itself partly in robust student leadership.
Originally a national and established faith, the teachings of Anglicanism also imply public responsibility (as in the College motto, Deo Patriæ Tibi). Among the college alumni are seven bishops, including two who promoted women's ordination in the Anglican Church, three High Court judges, Sir Denis Browne, the father of paediatric surgery in the UK, and Sir Lorimer Dods, a pioneer researcher in child diseases, W.C.B. Harvey, who first persuaded Australians that smoking was dangerous, and Patrick McGorry, an international leader in the area of youth mental health.
Educators affiliated with the college participated in the founding, in the 1890s, of the adjacent Women's College. The two colleges are still closely linked; St Paul's has remained men-only, since 2000 the two other large former men's colleges have become co-residential.[4] The College has formal dinner five nights a week, to which college members wear tie, jacket and academic gown.
The first students enrolled in February 1857 and moved into the new buildings a year later. After a slow start, numbers increased markedly from the 1880s and this was a time of remarkable flowering for the college. Meanwhile, St John's College and St Andrew's College had opened, and in 1892 the Women's College. By the last decades of the nineteenth century the main traditional features of the college's community had emerged, including a collective spirit and various sporting and cultural activities. Debating and public speaking flourished. With the gradual evolution of student self-government within the university and college, in 1906 the students' club came into existence. The intercollegiate Rawson Cup was established in 1907 by Governor Sir Harry Rawson, whose son was at the college. The college's magazine, The Pauline, dates from 1910.
By this time the college had its own distinct intellectual tradition, foreshadowed by the founders, a liberal Anglicanism which took seriously the challenges involved in combining religious and secular knowledge and in making the English Church useful to the Australian nation. The number of Paulines from this period who are now listed in the Australian Dictionary of Biography is evidence of the way the College was in step with the times.[5]
The original building was designed in Gothic style by English-born architect Edmund Blacket. Blacket was a distinguished ecclesiastical architect; he also designed the main university building and supervised the construction of the Catholic St John's College at the same university.[6][7] Other buildings include a chapel (designed by John Leslie Stephen Mansfield and completed in 1960) and a residential wing designed by Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners which opened in 1999.[2]
In November 2009, a Sydney paper reported that several former residents of the college (all players on the same social soccer team)[8] were members of a Facebook group described itself as "pro-rape, anti-consent".[9][10] The group was alleged by the reporter to be part of a broader culture amongst privileged youths which demeaned women in a sexist (or sexually violent) way.[11] What was not well appreciated by actors interested in this episode was that the target of the Facebook site was not in fact women or any person but other soccer teams against which the social soccer team played. Warden Ivan Head issued a public response condemning the students' behaviour.[9][12]
In the 2010 World University Debating Championship two former Paul's students (Chris Croke and Steve Hind) took the title, winning the final against teams from Oxford, Harvard and the London School of Economics.[13] Since the 1890s, the college has fostered social-justice ideals (as part of the liberal Anglican tradition) and most students are involved at some point in philanthropic activities. During the first decade of the 21st century, half the male Rhodes Scholars from Sydney University have been Paulines. In 2010, Jack Manning Bancroft was named NSW Young Australian of the Year for his work in indigenous education.[13][14]
Aims of the college[edit]
- To open the way to the best that the university has to offer
- To encourage intellectual endeavour and promote the highest academic goals
- To sustain itself as a community which is intelligent, amicable, amiable, inclusive and dynamic
- To be a place of civilised life
- To maintain an annual calendar which expresses the spectrum of human endeavour
- To foster the autonomies and responsibilities of its students' club as an expression of the independence and democratic maturity of all college members
- To express the historic Christian tradition of faith and worship in a critical and informed Anglican manner, appropriate to a university setting, and to recognise and value the best in all faiths
- To contribute to the greatness of the nation and to international citizenship
The college follows the ideas of John Henry Newman who advocated a model of "a good college" in the The Idea of a University.
Culture and academic life[edit]
The college has a full tutorial program, supporting and extending university work, and hosts frequent seminars and symposiums. Its Wednesday night forums bring leading intellectuals and public figures to the college for debate with students, and its "History of University of Life" seminars are also popular. The college hosts an annual symposium focused on historical and theological issues. Its Senior Common Room (numbering 30–35 scholars) plays an important part in the life of the college, and includes several senior scholars and postgraduates. Academic life is the responsibility of the Senior Tutor, until January 2010 Dr Dugald McLellan and Professor Alan Atkinson after that date.[15] St Paul's also has an active Middle Common Room, with gatherings led by honours students and others.
The college has a substantial tutorial program. It uses the principle of peer tutoring, a development of the idea of "peer assisted study", first developed in the United Kingdom. Nearly all tutors are students in college, and most of them are undergraduates, at most a year or two further advanced than their class. As a result university work is drawn to the centre of college life, and teaching and intellectual leadership is part of the mainstream conversation. The organization of the tutorial system is largely in the hands of students, under the supervision of the Senior Tutor. Social networking is used by the students to supplement teaching.
In 2013 the college introduced a Positive Education program for students.[16] There is a variety of activities during the year, culminating in a course of ten seminars leading to the St Paul's College Certificate in Positive Education.
Officially granted by the Earl Marshal in 1961, the college coat of arms displays crossed swords and the Maltese cross to represent St Paul in the official colours of gold and gules. The college's motto, Deo Patriae Tibi, can be translated as "For God, country and yourself."[17]
The college has a substantial library (named in honour of John Leslie Stephen Mansfield, an alumnus), which is being restocked to meet ongoing undergraduate needs. It includes the Cannington Law library and an enlarged college archive, which holds manuscript material dating to the 1850s. The Old Library, assembled mainly during the 19th century, has many valuable books from as far back as the 15th century (the older ones are held in the university library), and includes an original edition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan.
St Paul's is one of three colleges within Sydney University to have its own fully licensed bar.[18] The Salisbury Bar usually opens Sunday to Thursday from 8 pm. Each year the bar is run by a student group committed to the legacy of alumnus Charles Salisbury, whose donation created the service; according to legend, Salisbury set a condition requiring the establishment of a bar for the residents. He reportedly declared that "no man should have to walk more than 50 metres for a beer". St Paul's has a fully stocked wine cellar (providing members of the college with reduced-price entry-level wines) and a large collection of stored vintages. The wine cellar is also run by senior residents of the college.[citation needed]
Dramatic society[edit]
The St Paul's College Mummers (the college's dramatic society) is one of the longest-continuously-running university drama groups in Australia. College men are involved as actors, producers, directors, and stagehands to create theatrical productions which may be enjoyed by the wider University community.[citation needed]
As do most of the Sydney University colleges, St Paul's has its own oval where informal touch football is played every weeknight. All are welcome; many players are academics on study break.[citation needed] The Rawson Cup was donated for the intercollegiate competition by Governor Sir Harry Rawson (who had a son at Paul's) in 1907. Each year, St Paul's College competes for the cup with the other Sydney University men's colleges – Wesley, St Andrew's College, and St John's College.[citation needed] Rawson sports are played throughout the university year and include cricket, rowing, Rugby, swimming and diving, soccer, tennis, basketball and athletics. St Paul's won the Rawson Cup for five consecutive years, from 2005–2009 until St Andrews college regained the cup.[citation needed]
Annual events[edit]
During the year the college holds a number of large events, of which the largest are Victoriana!, the Informal, the Jazz Dinner Dance, and the College Formal. The Jazz Dinner Dance ('JDD') is an intimate black tie occasion for collegians and their guests.[citation needed] The College Formal is an annual event, organised and run by a committee (usually selected from senior students). Up to 500 guests attend the black tie function. Usually held in the quadrangle, recent themes have included School of Rock (2007- including a guest performance by Austrian glam-metal band Gerspunken), Neon Mirage (2005 – Las Vegas) and Circus Royale (2004). The 2004 Formal took the event to the college oval, with dodgem cars, a jumping castle, fire breathers and the largest traveling Ferris wheel in Australia. Previous years have also allowed guests to bathe in hot tubs, ride in hot air balloons, take motorbike rides around the oval and view fireworks displays.[citation needed]
Honouring ex-servicemen[edit]
The college has had several former members serve in the Great War (World War I) of which some were killed in action. In 1935 the college along two other colleges from Sydney University decided to raise some funds to honour these deceased members and help their families, by surcharging (by means of privately overprinting) the then current two-penny ANZAC commemorative stamp standard letter rate stamps with the amounts of one, five and ten shillings and also one pound. It is not known if this action was endorsed by the Postmaster General's Department at the time. It is also not known how many stamps were sold or how much money was raised.
Cultural engagement[edit]
Since about the mid-1990s life in the college has been coloured especially by an interest in what has been called social entrepreneurship – the combination of economics, problem-solving and philanthropy. This echoes the social justice concerns of Radford's days, and even the Christian Socialism brought from England in 1856 by the first warden, Henry Hose. Recently, members of the college have founded two philanthropic enterprises which have attracted much support, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience Nat Ware's 180 Degrees Consulting.
Academic honours[edit]
The college boasts a long list of academic honours an its website lists many University Medallists since 2005.[19] Its Rhodes Scholarship list is given below:
- 1907 Garnet Vere Portus (1883-1954; in College 1903-04), afterwards clergyman, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Adelaide, and radio broadcaster.
- 1908 Richard Granville Waddy (1885-1974; in College 1905-09), afterwards medical practitioner.
- 1911 Hugh Kingsley Ward (1887-1972; in College 1909-10), afterwards Professor of Bacteriology, University of Sydney.
- 1915 Walter Ferguson Crawford (1894-1978; in College 1913-14), afterwards knighted, Governor of Northern Sudan.
- 1920 Vernon Haddon Treatt (1897-1984; in College 1915-16), afterwards knighted, NSW Minister for Justice and Chief Commissioner for the City of Sydney.
- 1925 Allan Robert Callaghan (1903-93; in College 1922-24), afterwards knighted and South Australian Director of Agriculture.
- 1931 David Garnsey (1909-96; in College 1927-29), afterwards Bishop of Gippsland.
- 1935 Keith Noel Everal Bradfield (1910-2006; in College 1930-33), afterwards OBE and Civil Aviation Advisor to the Government of Papua New Guinea.
- 1939 Walter Laurence Hughes (1917-99; in College 1934-38).
- 1940 Basil Holmes Travers (1919-98; in College 1938-39), afterwards Headmaster of Shore.
- 1946 William Winslow Woodward (1920-87; in College 1939-40), afterwards medical practitioner.
- 1948 Louis Walter Davies (1923-2001; in College 1941), afterwards AO and Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of NSW.
- 1951 Adrian Peter Henchman (1927-89; in college 1946-50), afterwards Sydney solicitor
- 1953 James Graham McLeod (b 1932; in college 1949-53), afterwards AO and Professor of Neurology, Sydney University
- 1956 John Maxwell Bailey (b 1935; in college 1954), afterwards attached to the European Atomic Energy Commission, Geneva
- 1960 Malcolm John Swinburn (b 1937; in college 1956-60), afterwards a medical practitioner
- 1961 Peter Garnsey (b 1938; in College 1956-60), afterwards Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity, Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College
- 1964 John Dyson Heydon (b 1943; in College 1960-64), afterwards AC and High Court justice.
- 1975 Peter Edward King (b 1952; in College 1971-75), afterwards Sydney barrister and Federal MP
- 1990 Andrew Scott Bell (b 1966; in College 1985-89), afterwards Sydney barrister (SC)
- 1992 Scott Nixon (b 1968; in College 1986-91), afterwards Sydney barrister
- 1995 Peter Raymond Barnett (b 1971; in College 1990-94)
- 2001 Andrew Henry Charlton (b 1978; in College 1997-99)
- 2003 Benjamin Juratowitch (b 1978; in College 1998)
- 2007 Eric Ronald Wing-Fai Knight (b 1983; in College 2002-04).
- 2009 Nikolas Norman Patrick Kirby (b 1984; in College 2005-09).
- 2010 David Colin Conway Llewellyn (b 1985; in College 2006-09).
- 2011 Nathaniel Jon Ware (b 1988; in College 2009-11)
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- 1909–15: The Revd Lewis Bostock Radford (afterwards Bishop of Goulburn)
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- 1946–63: The Revd Felix Raymond Arnott (afterwards Archbishop of Brisbane)
- 1964–85: The Revd Canon Alexander Peter Bruce Bennie
- 1985–94: The Right Revd Maxwell McNee Thomas (former Bishop of Wangaratta)
- current: The Revd Ivan Head
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- ^ Ham, Melinda (30 October 2008). "Secrets of the city exposed – architecture". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 17.
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With lighthearted nature, let's talk about how proper home security measures could have be taken to help stop the reign of terror of such horror movie icons as Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Freddie Krueger.
Let's blast in to the past.
Friday the 13th1980, Camp Crystal Lake: The first thing these wild camp counselors needed was adult supervision, but that's no fun in horror movie land so let's put ourselves in the shoes of the teenagers from "Friday the 13th" as their trapped in a cabin and think: Home Security.
We're 19 years old, trapped in a cabin and a humongous psychopath with a machete and a hockey mask is standing right outside our door. We know he's there, he's already obliterated two of our friends and the only thing standing between him and us is a lock on the door. Our adrenaline is through the roof, our death is impending so we start playing the "What I should have done differently" game.
Home Security Lesson Learned: I should've bought a Guard Dog (not an actual dog). I doubt Jason Voorhees has ever used a door handle in his life, so a Guard Dog has to come in handy here. It is a second layer of lock protection that holds a door firmly closed from the inside, even when a door handle is broken. Please Note: Our experts have never tested the Guard Dog on Jason Voorhees- because that's impossible- but we are confident it will keep out most burglars and at bare minimum scare the living daylights out of them with its motion sensitive siren- sold here at Home Security Store.
Haddonfield, Illinois, Halloween 1978. We're looking at the world through the eyes of Laurie Strode: an innocent, conservative high school student who volunteered her October 31st to babysit a family friend's son. A masked man has been quietly following her all day, but she suspects no harm.
Haddonfield was a quiet town. For a "Cat in a Tree" call, it's almost guaranteed that the entire police force and fire department would show up at the drop of a dime. Now, Laurie was protected inside her home, the doors were locked and even though he was tagged as "The Boogeyman," Michael Myers was still human, not to mention a sloth in his movement.
Home Security Lesson Learned: GET AN ALARM SYSTEM LAURIE! Loud noises scare all people- even the Boogeyman. Almost guaranteed a police officer would've been there within 5 minute of it being triggered. Tell me you can't find a hiding place in your home and evade terror from a slow thinking and tortoise-like crazy man for 5 minutes! Instead- this girl has lived sequel after sequel in fear and despair.. For Over 30 years Now (Rumors of another sequel in 2015)!! And all she needed was an alarm system and possibly some glass break detectors.
Springwood, Ohio, 1984. This is without a doubt the hardest horror movie situation to prepare for, because the characters in "Nightmare On Elm Street" aren't playing on their home turf. Although they are playing the game of mortality in their own dreams, they are in Freddie's World- and he has complete control. So let's fast forward to the end of the film.
Nancy has discovered a secret- You can pull things out of the dream world, including Freddie himself, so her battle is on 2 fronts: Survive the dream world and be prepared for when you pull him back to the real world.
Survive the Dream World Security Lesson: Nancy should've mentally prepared herself for self-defense, and all she had to do was read our blog here on HomeSecurityStore.com. She should've read it 5 times for all 5 of Freddie's finger blades. All she had to do was survive a few minutes!
Real World Home Security Lesson: If you remember the film, Nancy was almost killed in the dream world because she didn't wake up when her alarm goes off. Lesson- Get an ear-piercing alarm system. Then, when she does drag Freddie back to the real world- Mace Pepper Gun, followed by non-stop karate chops to the face. Also use self-defense lessons.
This was a parody and I hope you enjoyed it, but just in case you get a call this Friday night from a raspy-voiced man on the other end asking "What's your favorite scary movie?" – Now you know what home security measures you have to take to stay safe.


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NEW YORK -- While NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is deciding on punishment for players and listening to appeals in the Saints' bounty case, he says he won't stand in the way if New Orleans asks Bill Parcells to take over as interim coach.
"That's their decision. They need to make those decisions and we'll move forward," Goodell said Monday at the opening of an NFL pop-up store featuring new team apparel. "Bill's a great coach, and I'm sure will add a lot of personality and intrigue. And he's as competitive as they get so I'm sure he'll do a good job."
Before the Saints pick someone to run the team this year, Goodell still has to rule on coach Sean Payton's appeal of his season-long suspension, along with the appeals of shorter suspensions to assistant coach Joe Vitt and general manager Mickey Loomis and penalties handed down to the team.
"Bill's a great coach, and I'm sure will add a lot of personality and intrigue. And he's as competitive as they get so I'm sure he'll do a good job.
" -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell
on Saints asking Bill Parcells to coach
The league had planned to hold the appeal hearings Tuesday afternoon, but now believes it will have to push back the date, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Monday.
According to the source, Payton and Loomis do not want to have the appeal heard Tuesday and would like it pushed back as much as possible. The league would like to hear the appeal as quickly as possible and was preparing to have it Tuesday afternoon, but due to the setback has yet to make a final determination on when the hearing will be, according to the source.
Goodell said Monday he expects to hear the appeal this week, and hopes to make a ruling shortly thereafter.
"Part of it depends exactly when the appeal is going to be, and second of all what information comes up in the appeal," said Goodell, who had met with Payton twice before the appeal was filed.
Meanwhile, league officials met for two-plus hours with NFL Players Association officials Monday evening about penalties involving players who took part in the bounty program, according to NFL.com. The meeting ended at about 6:45 p.m. ET.
The union has asked the NFL to provide it with all the information from the league's investigation that revealed 22 to 27 defensive players were part of the Saints' pay-for-pain bounty pool. The pool awarded thousands of dollars in cash bonuses from 2009 to 2011 for vicious hits that knocked targeted opponents out of games.
"Our duty is to view and understand the evidence and to ensure it is substantiated and concrete," union executive director DeMaurice Smith said in a statement Monday. "We also have an obligation to ensure that our players have fair due process. It is not our duty to give recommendations for discipline in a vacuum without information or without consultation with our players. It seems as if this entire matter has played out primarily in public, with regard for the fairness of the process an afterthought.
"Our team will meet with the NFL today, ask hard questions and will expect to see all documents and direct evidence of a pay-to-injure scheme. That is what a fair process dictates. I will get a full briefing by our team and after that, the next step will be to consult with players about what was learned. Only then will we confer with the NFL."
One example, according to the league: Linebacker Jonathan Vilma offered $10,000 to any New Orleans player who sidelined Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre during the 2010 NFC Championship Game.
Goodell said the league has given the NFLPA two confidential reports on the investigation.
"I think we all need to move forward," he said. "We've been open about what we've been able to find. We released it publicly."
The commissioner said he's hopeful the NFLPA will have a recommendation soon after meeting with league officials.
The results of the appeal could well affect whether Parcells comes out of retirement to take over as interim coach while his former offensive assistant and protégé is suspended.
Parcells has said he would consider coaching the Saints if asked. Payton and Loomis played golf with the former NFL coach last week to talk to him about the team's predicament.
Parcells, who turns 71 in August, led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl titles, and also coached the New England Patriots, New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys.
There has been criticism of Goodell for allowing Payton to participate in picking his successor, but the commissioner says the decision rests with Saints owner Tom Benson.
"These are management decisions that Tom Benson will have to sign off on," Goodell said. "He will get recommendations, I'm sure from Sean and Mickey and others, and make his determination. If it ends up being Parcells, then they've gone through the full process."
On Sunday, the NFLPA told players involved in the bounty case that there's a chance they could face criminal charges and it hired outside counsel to represent them if needed.
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Asked about possible criminal charges, Goodell said, "Those aren't my decisions."
"To me, we're going to do what's right," he said. "We're going to make sure our rules are enforced. And when they're violated we'll take the appropriate discipline."
On March 21, Goodell suspended Payton for all of the upcoming season, Loomis for eight games, Vitt for six games, and former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams indefinitely, a penalty that will last at least one season. Goodell also fined the Saints $500,000 and took away second-round draft picks in 2012 and 2013.
Williams, who left the Saints after last season to join the St. Louis Rams, ran the bounty program.
It's still unclear whether the appeal will change anything, but Goodell said Monday he's open to new evidence. He noted, though, that the investigation has lasted years, in large part because the Saints didn't come clean when first asked about the bounties.
"We've met with various personnel in the Saints, and for three years they denied that this was going on," Goodell said. "It's clear it was going on, and that's one of the reasons the punishment was harsh. ... They denied it repeatedly. And eventually we were able to get a credible source that came up late last year that gave us information that indicated clearly that it was going on."
Even then, Goodell said, the Saints still denied it.
"We want to hear if there's information we're not aware of," he said. "We'll take that into consideration and we'll deal with it from there."
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Country of Origin: Japan
Manufacturer: Kawasaki - Japan
Initial Year of Service: 2000
Production: 40
Crew: 2
Length: 39.37 ft (12 m)
Width: 38.06 ft (11.60 m)
Height: 12.47ft (3.80 m)
Weight (Empty): 5,401 lb (2,450 kg)
Weight (MTOW): 8,818 lb (4,000 kg)
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Maximum Speed: 173 mph (278kmh; 150 kts)
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Review: I AM PLAYR is loaded with fun drills, but it lacks serious soccer action
Build and defend your homeland from an onslaught of attackers in I AM PLAYR.
I AM PLAYR offers great graphics and fun soccer drills, but it lacks actual soccer games. If it let you get on the field and play with a team, it'd be a complete, fantastic game. It still offers solid graphics and responsive, enjoyable gameplay without that key feature, though.
I AM PLAYR lets you run through shooting and passing drills on a soccer field. The ball responds to your flicks -- both direction and distance -- and most of the drills are timed. Advancing through the game follows the time-honored experience tradition, meaning once you finish a drill, your performance dictates how much experience you earn. This lets you unlock more levels with increased experience and power-ups. Though there are multiple drills and multiple levels in each drill, there are no matches or actual games in the app. That means there's nothing for you to do once you've played all the matches and have to wait to unlock them again, except to spend in-game currency to try again. I AM PLAYR's graphics look like they were made for an advanced handheld console and are a treat for the eyes, even on small-screen phones. That adds some depth to the game, which could easily become repetitive after a few tries.
I AM PLAYR does enough to get by and be enjoyable, but a few more drills or an actual gameplay mode would make this app phenomenal. Without those, it's essentially a more polished version of other flick-to-kick soccer warm up games.


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replicates). On the right side the results of Northern blot analysis are shown (one
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It was code, "a series of dots and dashes" etched into the sides of pencils, that cheaters used to take tests for a New York license to operate a school bus, a tractor-trailer or heavy equipment, federal and state investigators said.
Nineteen people have been arrested and charged in the driver's license scam, among them three security guards for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles who were allegedly caught on surveillance cameras accepting cash bribes of up to $4,000.
Authorities believe as man as 250 commercial drivers licenses were issued to people who cheated and they are now being sought.
"It's potential school bus licenses, tractor trailers, tow trucks, tanker trailers, doubles, triples, the most dangerous vehicles on the road," said New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott, whose office was tipped to the alleged scheme by confidential informants.
Prosecutors released surveillance photos of what they said were suspects slipping cash into the pockets of DMV officials.
Three DMV security guards and eight others were charged with orchestrating the scam and accused by Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, of enabling "unqualified drivers to take to our roads and highways behind the wheel of large buses and heavy trucks."
Eight people were charged with cheating on the commercial driver's license exam by paying cash for the pencils engraved with the coded answers or for a proxy to take the test.
"The eight commercial drivers who paid someone else to take their tests took the easy way out," said Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.
The DMV said it has strengthened its procedures and will eventually eliminate the paper test that was the focus of the scam.
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Quest of the Mystic Knight Part I : Darkness Abounds
Dark demons conjured from their dank tomb
Spreading evil - at the Order of Satans wish for gloom
Across meadows flowering this wave of fire goes breathing
Scorching everything beautiful everything living.
Lightlessness creeps over a land left barren
Obstructing even the brilliance of heaven
However a fair maiden wanders aimlessly
Over the desolate landscape vigilantly.
Amidst the ruin she finds a single lily flourishing
Glowing brilliant still amongst the decaying
A sign of life still untouched by the devastation
A sign of beauty purity hope and salvation.
From ashes of Lucifer also rises in beauty
A new Hero A New Glory to battle this Evil Entity
The danger lies not within His also rising Wisps
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BOSTON -- The Big East can't impose a $5 million fine on Boston College for defecting to the Atlantic Coast Conference, and it can't force BC to remain in the conference for an extra 15 months, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
The decision passed down Wednesday keeps Boston College on track to join the ACC next July and pay a $1 million withdrawal fee to the Big East.
After Miami and Virginia Tech left the Big East for the ACC in June 2003, the presidents of the remaining Big East schools sought to deter further defections by raising the withdrawal fee from $1 million to $5 million and increasing the withdrawal notice from 12 to 27 months.
Boston College supported the amendment when it was proposed in July 2003, but abstained from the Oct. 6, 2003, vote at which it was approved. Six days later, BC accepted an invitation to become the ACC's 12th member.
When the Big East sought to impose the new penalties on BC, the school sued, saying the conference had improperly amended its constitution. The judge agreed, saying the Big East flouted its own rules when it created the harsher penalties.
"Whatever Boston College might have said about its state of discussions or its expressed acceptance of a $5 million, 27-month penalty, that did not impede the Big East's ability to correctly amend its Constitution," Judge Allan van Gestel said in his ruling.
"We are gratified that, after nearly a year of adverse and misleading public statements leveled against us, a respected judge has seen through to the actual merits of the case and has ruled in favor of Boston College," BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo said in a statement.
Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said the conference was "extremely disappointed" in the decision and was considering an appeal.
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These pretty girls show off their colorful faces at the Fiesta de Flores yesterday at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. The day highlighted Latino culture as part of the garden's Hispanic Heritage month celebration. Fiesta de Flores is an annual event at the garden.
The day included everything from face painting and paper flower making to a live musical performance with Dan Zanes and Friends.
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this one is not a really good one of mine and sorry for the bad spelling
Lets go for a walk you say.
I follow you into the dark woods.
I feel safe because your with me.
But something deep inside me tells me I should be scared.
How can I be scared of the one I love?
Next thing I knew you push me down to the wet grownd.
In your hand you hold a knife.
Why was all I was able to say before my blood hit the floor.
And my heart sliped away!
by leftinthedark aka nicole!
sasuke is mine.
this one is not a really good one of mine and sorry for the bad spelling
sasuke is mine.
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it was like so asome.
Keep it up.
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One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live... and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father and his young son. A story of love and fear -- of growth, discovery, and acceptance -- that becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions, this uniquely exhilarating modern classic is both touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence... and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.
For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phenomenon that, in 1968, baffled the national imagination: the transformation of the "promising middle-class youth with all the advantages" into what was popularly known as "the hippie." Kesey was more than promising. He was a Golden Boy of the West-a scholar, actor, star athlete, and one of the outstanding novelists of his generation-when he burst forth as an experimenter with powerful new hallucinogenic drugs, leader of the Merry Pranksters, and, finally, fugitive from the FBI, the California police, and the Mexican Federales.


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Texans in Congress fail secular group's report card
The lobbyist group Secular Coalition graded U.S. representatives' voting histories on legislation dealing with church-state separation. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. representatives from Texas failed to side with the secular positions on seven pieces of religion-related legislation, earning an "F" on the Secular Coalition's report card. (Austin's Rep. Lloyd Doggett did the best in the state, […]
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A religion reporter remembers Christopher Hitchens
It's hard to read Christopher Hitchens and not feel something: inspired, offended, persuaded, amused, unsettled or ready to debate back. I guess that's why they called him "provactive." His words forced you to think and react. When I heard the news that Hitchens, the famous atheist author and activist, died in Houston last night, I […]
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Atheists fight Texas nativity display
Here's something you probably haven't heard of before: There's a Christmas display on government property, and a non-religious group wants it to be taken down. Oh wait. That happens all the time. The War on Christmas' latest battlefront is in Athens, Texas, about 75 miles southeast of Dallas, where a nativity scene in front of […]
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Atheist scientists sometimes still take kids to church
Nearly 1 in 5 atheists with children have attended a religious service with their family in the past year, according to research by a Rice University professor. Sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund, who researches religion among scientists and academics, found religion remains so prevalent in American society that even some of those who don't believe in […]
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Atheists say cancer charity turned down their $500K donation
Atheists say the American Cancer Society discriminated against them for their beliefs when they rejected a godless group's Relay for Life team… and their $500,000 contribution. The incident happened over the summer, and the story's now getting coverage in mainstream media (as well as atheist blogs), and putting pressure on the American Cancer Society. From […]
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Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins speaking at atheist event in Houston
Update: Richard Dawkins will also speak at a Rice University event that is free and open to the public at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10. His talk, held in the Stude Concert Hall in the Shepherd School of Music's Alice Pratt Brown Hall, is sponsored by Houston Enriches Rice Education (HERE). More information can be […]
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Flying over Texas: 'God-LESS America' atheist banners
This Fourth of July, American Atheists will fly banners above public events across the country, including the Texas Rangers game in Arlington. The banners will read either "God-LESS America" or "Atheism is Patriotic," as a part of a campaign to defend civil rights of atheists and dispel the mentality that it's un-American to be a […]
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Religious communities have long provided a place for deep, meaningful relationships based on shared values and worldviews. Today, though, at least 1 in 6 Americans identify as unaffiliated and find their communities outside of the church (/synagogue/mosque/prayer circle). Once an evangelical Christian, Jim Gilliam discovered in the midst of his devastating cancer treatment a new […]
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Perry's rally at Reliant prompts protest, critics
More than 100 Texans have joined a Facebook group pledging to hold a peaceful demonstration outside Reliant Stadium during Gov. Rick Perry's prayer rally in August. There are atheists who oppose the concept of the event—prayer as a response to the nation's problems; there are Christians who are uncomfortable with the way Perry has incorporated […]
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Is 'Superbass' Just a Jay-Z Song Sped Up?
If you slow down Nicki Minaj's hit 'Superbass,' you might get the impression that Jay-Z has been playing an elaborate trick on us all along....
If you slow down Nicki Minaj's hit 'Superbass,' you might get the impression that Jay-Z has been playing an elaborate trick on us all along....
In the Steven Tyler vs Nicki Minaj feud, Steven Tyler is the first one to blink. The former American Idol judge has apologized to current judge Nicki Minaj for a comment he made which she thought was "racist".
The holiday shopping season is underway and shoppers are hitting the big-box stores to grab the best deals they can find. However, music fans looking to buy discounted albums are having a hard time finding Nicki Minaj's 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded -- The Re-Up' at some retailers. What's up with that?
Nicki Minaj has some big sandals to fill in her 'Freedom' video, which paints her as Jesus Christ.
Will Nicki Minaj and Rihanna dominate the 2012 American Music Awards winners list as they did with nominations? Both ladies led the nominee pack for the 2012 American Music Awards, nabbing four nods each for the fan-voted show, but One Direction and Justin Bieber are hot on their trail with three apiece.
The white flag has been waved and the olive branch extended …we think! Nicki Minaj has opened up about her post-fight relationship with Mariah Carey, saying that they have been "fine" since the dust up witnessed 'round the world.
It's been some time since we have heard from TLC's T-Boz, but she is speaking her mind about Nicki Minaj as an 'American Idol' judge.
While Nicki Minaj is titillating her U.K. Barbz on her overseas tour, the Young Money starlet unveiled the track listing for her 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded -- The Re-Up' album, which hits stores on Nov. 19.
Nicki Minaj's "unprecedented" three-part reality mini-series launches on E! this Sunday, Nov. 4 at 10:30 PM EST. Lucky for eager fans, you can enjoy a super short preview ahead of time, and it certainly gives a taste of what to expect.
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Painting a front door in playful pink tells visitors to expect whimsy and delight once they cross the threshold. The yellow abstract painting above confirms this theory and welcomes guest for a refreshing experience.
Expect the unexpected in a cottage-style home. I'm inspired by the fabric mix of the furniture in the living room and the neighboring dining room. There is an assortment of patterns within this open space, but the green color palette is what helps to keep the fabric medley cohesive.
Incorporating decor from local shops makes a space feel rooted and grounded in its locale. Vintage signs and framed photos of life on the coast makes any space feel casual and unpretentious.
In the same bath, seafoam-painted hardware, woven wood shades, and storage baskets add both color and texture to a crisp, white space.
This cheerful, highly functional laundry room would make me happy to toss a load in before heading to the surf. This hardworking room is completely outfitted in the essentials — a laundry sink, double washer, and generous storage — but what makes it sing is the tangy lime cabinetry and mosaic tile backsplash.
A wooden sunburst mirror floats above the bed and against watery blue walls, introducing an organic element into the space. The color intensifies with the drapery, which acts as the accent in this heavenly monochromatic retreat.
This dining room is eclecticism at its best. A well-appointed mix of mid-century chairs combined with a rustic table and modern pendant light makes this space appear effortless, yet very stylish. The flood of natural light is always a great accessory courtesy of Mother Nature.
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Olympic records come and Olympic records go - but not this one.
The last one endured 48 years, and there was plenty of drama as it fell.
There are more than 10,000 athletes at these Games, but for the last day, it's been all about one of them: Michael Phelps.
He had two shots at sporting immortality Tuesday - in fact, he had a shot at two all-time records.
A medal in the 200-meter butterfly would tie him at 18 for the most medals ever won by a single athlete.
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A gold in the event would mean he'd be the only person to ever win consecutive gold medals in a single event at three consecutive Games.
And it looked awfully good for a while. In fact, until the last meter or two, when Phelps glided to the finish and South African Chad Le Clos took one last crucial lunge, and won.
Friends say the consecutive golds was the record Phelps really wanted. He had to settle for merely another medal - his 18th.
Phelps' mother looked like she thought he'd won.
Le Clos' father couldn't believe it. He wrapped himself in the South African flag.
That finish tied Phelps with Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina, whose medal run in the 1950s and '60s was Phelps' target.
She was in the stands watching. Phelps deserved the record, she said. Forty-eight years was long enough.
And about an hour later, the 48-year run was about to come to an end.
Alex Wolff, senior reporter for Sports Illustrated, was poolside for Phelps' big moment. He described it to "CBS This Morning" co-hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King. to see the interview, click on the video at left:
The U.S. was the overwhelming favorite in the freestyle relay in which Phelps would swim the final leg.
He inherited a big lead and defended it, getting medal number 19, an Olympic record that may stand for another half-century.
"It's something that's very special," Phelps said. "You know, these Olympics are going to be a lot more emotional at times, and ... that's why, in the huddle, I was saying to these guys, 'Thank you for you guys making this possible.' You know, if I didn't have a big enough lead, who knows what would have happened? And these guys were able to put together three stellar spots in the relay and gave me a lead, and I just tried to finish."
Phelps has now confirmed himself as not only the greatest Olympian swimmer ever, but arguably the most outstanding athlete who's ever participated in these Games.
He's adored by normal fans, and was congratulated by the fan in chief in a personal tweet from President Obama. You made your country proud, it said.
The US women's gymnastics team made the country proud, as well. They were easy winners in the team gymnastics event - the first U.S. gold in that sport since 1996.
As for Phelps' achievement - not only is it unprecedented - he isn't finished. He's got three more races, so it's 19 medals - and counting.
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February may be cold and snowy in much of our country, but in Australia, this month is all about sunshine. So it was the perfect time of year to throw a combined birthday pool party for Tess and Sienna, the daughter of Leanne Ambrogio of Sweet Style, a stylish event planning and party supply company. "Once the pool party idea was set, we then wanted to come up with a cool theme to go with it . . . so enter the retro pink flamingo!" Leanne says. "Tess' mom is a super-genius graphic designer, so she came up with the amazing invitation and party stationery that set the tone for the entire day. Both the girls love blue so we incorporated this into the color theme. It was perfect to tie in with the pool!" A candy and cake table (featuring an awesome ombre, flamingo-topped cake) and a fun outdoor ice-cream bar ensured that this party appealed to guests of all ages. Keep clicking for all the chic details.
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