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The summer programme is part of a joint international project entitled ôEU-Turkey: Challenges and Opportunitiesö, organized within the framework of the European Commission Programme ôPRINCE 2009 - EU27: Support for Production and Dissemination of Audivisual Programmes and Awareness-Raising Events in the area of future enlargement of the European Union towards the Western Balkans and Turkeyö. The Project partners are Gediz University-Izmir, the University of Amsterdam and Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena.
Entitled ôTurkey and the EUĺs New Bordersö, the summer school to be held in Kusadasi-Turkey will have duration of one week and help disseminate academic knowledge about such themes as EUĺs enlargement policy towards Turkey and the Western Balkans and Turkeyĺs EU accession and its implications. 25 students from the EU, the candidate states and Turkey will attend the summer school. 10 academicians from Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Gediz University, the University of Amsterdam and from selected Turkish and EU universities will take part in the event as speakers. European students in the summer school will have ample time to socialize and interact with their Turkish peers. In addition to the lectures, the summer academy includes cultural activities, visits and tours in Kusadasi and its surroundings.
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Senior undergraduate students, MA students and beginning PhD students in the EU, candidate countries and Turkey in the fields of political science, international relations and European studies are invited to apply to the summer academy. Yet, other interested candidates could also apply to the summer programme.
The is a one-week programme from September 15 to September 22, 2011.
Turkey-EU Relations: A Historical Review, EU Neighbourhood Policy and the Role of Turkey, EUĺs Transformative Power in the Western Balkans and Turkey, Euro-Turks: Turkish Migrants in the EU and their Role for Turkeyĺs European Integration, the EU after the Lisbon Treaty, Euroscepticism in the EU and Candidate Countries, State, Society and Politics in Turkey, the issue of European identity and the question of Turkish "affiliation", Turkish Foreign Policy in the 21st century.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation.
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Thanks to the funding obtained from the European Commission, selected candidates will be provided full grants for participating in the Summer Academy. However, these students need to pay a registration fee of Ç 100. Full grant includes accommodation in the Hotel Adakule-Kusadasi on all-inclusive basis, round-trip airfare ticket to Turkey up to Ç 350 for students from the European countries outside of Turkey, transfers between Izmir Airport and the venue of the summer school, all the activities, visits, tours and transportation in the Summer Academy programme.
Applications should include a 500-word letter of motivation, a one-page CV, transcripts (for undergraduate students), Bachelorĺs grade record (for Master students), or Master grade record (for PhD students) (all in PDF or Word format) and should be submitted electronically to email@example.com Notification of acceptance will be made in mid-May 2011. Please note in the subject line of your e-mail ôTurkey-EU Summer Academyö.
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Altruistic feelings can prompt you to explore charitable opportunities in your community with great gusto today. Your strong sympathies concerning the potential solutions that have the potential to end suffering will likely be awakened by images of pain, hunger, and injustice. As you explore the rigors of selfless service and learn to integrate it properly into your current schedule and lifestyle, you may discover that you feel pangs of doubt when considering your ability to make an impact on the world around you. Yet you can ensure that your commitment never wavers today by simply having faith in the unchangeable fact that single individuals can bring about change if they believe in themselves.
We are more apt to take positive action against the suffering borne by humanity when we allow ourselves to truly believe in the just and charitable causes that attract our attention. In accepting that the actions of a few individuals can change the world for the better, we inspire ourselves to become part of the solutions operating all over the globe. The scale of suffering that exists will not discourage us as we recognize that there are innumerable individuals dedicated to philanthropy working as diligently as we are to eradicate it. And when we join forces with these people, we can see firsthand how our individual resources and aptitudes can be a real boon to downtrodden peoples throughout the world. The sympathy you feel for those in pain today will inspire you to devote yourself to the cause of eliminating suffering.
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In the past four months, 10 percent of the city's 50,000 hack drivers have defected to the app-based car service, The Post reported last month — bringing the total number of Uber drivers in NYC to 10,000.And New Yorkers are hopping on board.
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You may fight, argue, get jealous and hate them but in the end, you find solace in their care, love and affection. Siblings – the most loved and delicate relationship that one can ever think of. Unlike your friends that you can pick and choose, your relationship with siblings – brothers and sisters - is created by God and goes a long way. Even if the whole world isolates you, your sibling would always stand by you selflessly – through your thick and thin times. So don't leave this chance and let your sibling know how much they matter. Join this interest and get talking about sibling love and rivalry, the problems, the good and the bad, things you like or dislike et al. Also post blogs and upload your private pictures too.


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The 2013 recipients of the Jim Davies Scholarship were announced at the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago's June 20 Board of Directors Meeting. This scholarship is awarded annually in the amount of $1,000 to individuals with epilepsy who will be incoming freshmen to a college or vocational/technical school and will be a full-time student for the 2013/2014 academic school year. This year, Erin Marie Foley of New Lenox, IL; Jennifer R. Smith of Chicago, IL; and Erin Vander Pas of Lake Zurich, IL received the award due to their strong commitment to their education and perseverance in overcoming the obstacles epilepsy may present.
Erin Marie Foley
Erin Marie Foley, a graduate of Lincoln-Way West, will be attending Eastern Illinois University this fall and plans to major in Pre-Medical studies. Erin's diagnosis of epilepsy and Type I diabetes, as well as losing her father to brain cancer at the age have seven, have greatly influenced her academic pursuits. "Seeing firsthand how important everyone's role is from the EMS personnel to the pharmacist in what they do in helping others has helped pick my career goal." After recently witnessing an open heart surgery with her school class, Erin has taken an interest in Anesthesiology and is ready to open the next chapter of her life. "I know that I will have to work harder than anyone else who may pick pre-med, but I am determined to succeed and am up for the challenges that I may face along the way."
Jennifer R. Smith
Jennifer R. Smith, a graduate of Mount Assisi Academy, will be attending Moraine Valley Community College this fall. Jennifer was diagnosed with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy in October 2011 and suffered a severe allergic reaction to the medication she was prescribed. Due to this reaction, she was diagnosed with Stevens Johnson Syndrome and spent a month the the Burn Intensive Care Unit. Additional medical complications did not make things any easier, however, Jennifer did not let that deter her. "Having epilepsy has caused me to realize how precious life really is… I am very happy that I survived Stevens Johnson Syndrome," Jennifer says. "I cannot change the fact that I went through it, but I can continue making my future brighter by continuing my education."
Erin Vander Pas
Erin Vander Pas, a graduate of Lake Zurich High School, will be attending the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay this fall with an interest in Non-Profit Management as a major. Erin's involvement with the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago has greatly impacted her academic interests, as she hopes to one day work for the organization. She represented the Foundation at the 2012 Kids Speak Up! Advocacy Conference in Washington, DC in 2011 and currently serves on its Youth Council. Epilepsy has caused "many ups and downs" in Erin's life, however, she has not let that discourage her from achieving success. Despite experiencing academic difficulties and bullying from peers due to her epilepsy, she continues to push forward. "It is a constant struggle for me to keep up with homework because my medications make me extremely tired ," Erin explains. "Yet, I don't let this slow me down. I spend extra time studying whenever I can and am extremely dedicated to keeping my grades up." Erin also keeps the opinions of fellow students from affecting her. "I deal with peers judging me due to my epilepsy… I want to prove them all wrong. My dream is to help all of those children out there with epilepsy that have had the same struggles I do."
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Anyone remember the movies "Reality Bites" or "Singles"? I do. All members of Generation X should because those movies signaled the arrival of our generation, the so-called "slackers."
In these movies, post-college 20-somethings drift through life aimlessly trying to find the meaning of life. They roll their eyes at the Baby Boomers, care very little about hard work and complain about everything. The typical Gen Xer is now in his or her 30s to late 40s. And according to a recent report, we really do have something to complain about.
A Pew Charitable Trusts study, titled "Retirement Security Across Generations," examined the savings behavior of five age groups before the Great Recession hit and found that Gen Xers fared especially poorly during the recent economic downturn. That means their retirement years will likely be more tarnished than golden. That's not exactly welcoming news to this 40-year-old.
The study, using data from 1989 through 2010 collected by the Federal Reserve Board and the University of Michigan, found that between 2007 and 2010, Gen Xers — which the report defined as those born between 1966 and 1975 — lost nearly half of their overall net worth, an average of about $33,000, and also had higher levels of debt than previous generations.
A large part of the reason their debt is so high is because of student loans and credit-card debt, Erin Currier, who directs Pew's economic mobility project, told ABC News.
"They're younger in their professional career relative to other cohorts," she said. "Wealth is a mixture of all kinds of things — savings, personal accounts, investments."
And let's face it, some of the members of my generation are not astute when it comes to savings. I still struggle with it every day and the recent financial crisis didn't help.
When financial advisers tell you to save six months of your salary in savings, it's overwhelming.
But this should be a wake-up call to all Gen Xers. If we don't start making smart savings and investment choices soon, we may not have much left at the end of our lives.
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"Girl Racers" is a high-octane, four-parter from Screen Siren Prods. that charts the course of North America's leading female racecar drivers — Danica Patrick, Milka Duno and Natasha Cherchuk — over the course of the 2004 racing season.
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Before the meeting starts I figured I'd give you a quick tour of Adare Manor, location of the Wiring the Brain meeting. After this quick post, it's off to the opening lecture (John Rubenstein from UCSF) on "Patterning of the neocortex by FGF-signaling". And then some cocktails in the gorgeous courtyard. Pictures below the fold and the full set is here… ... Read more


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I think of the separation between law enforcement and criminals more as actually giving a crap about the people the laws are meant to protect (those of us without large amounts of money or other power).

We have failed to hold our government accountable to this principle. ĀWith so many people having no idea how their computers or cars work, or how to create and stick to a budget, or what goes into the food they put on their table, and caring more about what the Kardashians are doing than any of this... it's no wonder we got to where we are today.

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Firefighters are battling a grass fire in Placer County that is burning near some live power lines, officials said.
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JACKSON – A preliminary hearing is scheduled Tuesday for a white teenager accused of using his pickup truck to intentionally run over a black man in Jackson.
Deryl Dedmon is charged with running down James Craig Anderson on June 26 with a pickup in what authorities say was a hate crime.
Dedmon initially was charged with murder, but it was upgraded to capital murder when authorities said they uncovered evidence that Anderson was robbed.
Capital murder in Mississippi carries the possibility of a death sentence or life without parole. It's defined as a murder that occurs during the commission of another felony. Authorities say the underlying felony in this case is robbery.
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The possible biochemical heterogeneity of affective disorders has been discussed during the last decade.1 The bimodal distribution of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) supports the hypothesis that a subgroup of endogenous depressives have a disturbance in serotonin neurotransmission.2Moreover, significantly lower homevanillic acid (HVA) levels in the CSF were found in depressed patients compared with healthy control subjects.3 This finding and results from other studies indicate that dopamine might be involved in the pathogenesis of affective disorders.3 The antidepressant effect of the dopamine agonists bromocriptine6,7 and piribedil8 supports this hypothesis. Silverstone7 has shown that patients with bipolar but not unipolar depression responded to bromocriptine. This indicates that bipolar and unipolar depression might differ in central dopaminergic neurotransmission.
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Cutting out the wheat and grains can help a lot with a sensitive stomach.
Try cutting calories a small amount and make gradual changes. you also don't mention what you do for exercise, slow movement, lifting and play.
I have always had a sensitive stomach, always as in forever, even when I was a little kid, and even the first time I tried to eat primal about 4 years ago (at 42), I couldn't eat greasy, meaty foods without feeling really ill with terrible indigestion for days on end. 4 years ago, I did not need to lose weight, but I was probably skinny fat, I looked good in clothes but I have a feeling I thought I looked better than what I really did, even at my ideal weight of 115. That being said, I have always been able to eat whatever I wanted and how much I wanted and never had a weight problem, never counted calories, watched what I ate or when I ate.... it didn't matter, I stayed at around 115-125 depending on the time of year. Holidays I guess I gained more because I moved around less and ate more, possibly.
Somewhere within the last 4 years, I have acquired a bigger appetite than I had before, one that was not satisfied by eating.... very scary that I could eat 24 hours a day and never get that FULL or that feeling that you didn't want any more to eat. I was out eating my husband and everyone else in my family, and could eat more within minutes of finishing a large meal. It did not seem to matter what the meal was, besides the fact that I rarely ate crap. I did eat breads, cakes and such, but I also ate huge amounts of lean meat, veggies fruits and salad. I do not add dressings or sauces to my food except for maybe some of my moms homemade gravy.
At this time of increased eating, I did gain some control of my appetite by eating more protein, I eat greek yogurt with protein powder sometimes 3 times a day and it helped.... now I am down to eating yogurt and protein 1 time a day and I am eating more meat, eggs and veggies. I have been fairly successful eating under 100 g of carbs a day. I no longer eat grain/bread/cereal etc.
Now, my question... the first is of course, why am I not losing weight, inches or my body changing in any way. I am eating the same amount of calories as I was before I cut out the non primal stuff... and I'm not gaining. I am fairly active during the day with my work, I figure I am moderately active. I have been eating primal for 3 weeks give or take a few days.
Next question is why after my stomach being so sensitive for all these years, not being able to eat bacon or burgers or anything greasy... that I can eat unlimited amounts of any greasy food now?
Any ideas would be appreciated. Also, how to get my weight loss started again, the only weight I have lost in this 2 year journey to get back to 115 lbs is when I finally went ballistic and dropped my calories to 1000 and started taking Liquid Amino drops. Yes, I realize that I can do this again, but I did not feel healthy and I was starving and hiding from my family gorging on food secretly because I felt like I was letting them down by cheating on my diet. I eat 1800 calories a day, less is not going to work well for me, I cannot function when I am hungry and my work is demanding and stressful, cutting calories may get me fired, literally.
Cutting out the wheat and grains can help a lot with a sensitive stomach.
Try cutting calories a small amount and make gradual changes. you also don't mention what you do for exercise, slow movement, lifting and play.
Eating primal is not a diet, it is a way of life.
Don't forget to play!
Lifting lately is done at work, I lift varying weights of items, furniture, boxes etc for several hours sometimes all day. When I wasn't doing that I was lifting weights at home 3 days a week. Not much time for play, but I spend quite a bit of my day walking. The month of August I actually walked over 130 miles about 4 miles or more a day. I felt exhausted and have cut back during the month of September and since my job has been more strenuous this month, more lifting and walking for the last 3 weeks, I cut out lifting at home or supplemental walking until it slows back down at work. Despite any changes, walking, jogging for every third day in July, cutting calories, adding calories etc... nothing has proven to help me lose any weight. I have actually been within the same 3 pounds since June 1 and I have been logging everything I eat and I only drink unsweetened green and regular tea (homemade not bottled) or water, and maybe 1 coconut water a week (natural)
The actual change in my being able to eat greasy foods happened before I made the change to cut out grains... I only cut grains to see if that would spur some weight loss or at least flatten my belly.
There may have been a degree of gut-repair, owing to your stopping eating grains and legumes. Or perhaps you just got gradually used to the diet.Next question is why after my stomach being so sensitive for all these years, not being able to eat bacon or burgers or anything greasy... that I can eat unlimited amounts of any greasy food now?
I'm sure less wouldn't, and I wouldn't try it. Most health departments around the world advise 2000 upwards calories for women, so you're already probably eating less than you should unless you're very small and highly sedentary. That might explain the "unsatisfied" appetite you mention. When you lost weight on 1000 calories a day that was probably mostly muscle-mass. You don't want to lose that: but this is just what a scale won't tell you. I would stop worrying about "weight" as such and just eat good primal food and enough of it to feel satisfied. Perhaps keep an occasional eye on waist-circumference, but I wouldn't worry about it.I eat 1800 calories a day, less is not going to work well for me, I cannot function when I am hungry and my work is demanding and stressful, cutting calories may get me fired, literally.
I notice you mention Greek yoghurt, protein powder, bacon, burgers, and "meat, eggs and veggies". There's no mention of seafood in there at all. That's not unusual with Paleo diets, unfortunately, as people's food logs often show. However, some have a view that this foodstuff is of vital importance -- see here, for example:
BRAIN GUT 6: EPI-PALEO Rx | Living an Optimized Life
In fact, a emphasis on fish probably goes a long way to explain why the Mediterranean Diet performs consistently well in studies:
Mediterranean diet - Health news - NHS Choices
I would just eat good food from land and sea -- and enough to feel satiated. Get some good sleep as well. Loss of fat (it's that you want not weight-loss as such) will probably follow, but I wouldn't worry about it.
Allergic to shellfish, but I do eat fish. It's not a main staple in my diet because I am the only one in the house that eats it, so it's hard to have a different meal than everyone else.
I try very hard to sleep, but my husband is a noisy sleeper and he keeps me awake, and sleeping in another room is not an option. I try to keep it DARK in my room, I even run an air cleaner to block out extra noise. It doesn't seem to matter though, when I wake up in the morning, no matter what time it is, I cannot go back to sleep, I will toss and turn for hours, and I can't take naps unless I'm really sick.
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Goddard's early attraction to rocketry is clear from an autobiography written in 1927, but only published in 1959, in which he recalls as a 17-year-old climbing into a cherry tree to prune branches and finding himself daydreaming instead of interplanetary travel:
It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked toward the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars, and how it would look on a small scale, if sent up from the meadow at my feet.From this point on, Goddard's ambition, to develop the practical means of achieving spaceflight, began to take shape. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Clark University, Worcester, in 1911, and went on to become head of the Clark physics department and director of its physical laboratories. His first serious work on rocket development began in 1909, although it was not until 1915 that he carried out his first actual experiments, involving solid-fueled rockets, having already been granted patents covering such key components as combustion chambers, nozzles, propellant feed systems, and multistage launchers. In 1916, the Smithsonian Institution awarded him $5,000 to perform high-altitude tests. But a year later, following the United States' entry into World War I, he found himself temporarily in California, working on rockets as weapons, including the forerunner of the bazooka.
In 1919 Goddard published the first of his two important monologues on rocketry. Entitled A Method of Attaining Extreme Altitude and based on the report that had earned him the Smithsonian grant, it was written in typically cautious Goddard style. It would probably have attracted little attention but for its final section on the "Calculation of Minimum Mass Required to Raise One Pound to an Infinite' Altitude." Despite Goddard's sober analysis of the problems involved in sending a payload from Earth to the Moon, and of proving that the target could be reached (by an explosion of flash powder), he was lampooned by the popular press. However, he continued with his research and moved into the field of liquid-fueled rockets. On Mar. 16, 1926, Goddard carried out the world's first launch of such a system using a strange-looking, 3-meter-long rocket powered by a mixture of liquid oxygen and gasoline ignited by a blow-torch. The device rose for two and a half seconds, reaching a height of 67 m and a maximum speed of 96 km/h, before its fuel was exhausted.
Goddard died in 1945, enthusiastic to the end by the prospects of rocket-propelled spaceflight but disappointed by the failure of officialdom to back his work to a substantial degree – a failure due in part to the secrecy in which Goddard kept many of the technical details of his inventions. Only after his death were his contributions properly recognized. In 1959, one of NASA's major facilities, the Goddard Space Flight Center, was named in his honor. The following year, his widow together with the Guggenheim Foundation were awarded one million dollars in settlement for government use of 214 of the pioneer's patents.3
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Hilton Garden Inn Edmonton International Airport8208 36th Street, Leduc, Alberta, T9E 0H7, Canada TEL: +1-780-612-2350 FAX: +1-780-612-2351
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8208 36th Street , Leduc, AB, T9E 0H7, CA
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From Highway 2 turn east on Airport Road. Turn right at 36 Street and right onto Hotel boulevard.
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Edmonton International Airport(YEG) is 5 km East of the hotel on Airport Road. Go east on Airport Road from the airport for 5 minutes, cross railway tracks and turn right(South) on 36 Street and turn right (West) at hotel entrance
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Police investigating reported stabbing in Erie
Erie police said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding a reported stabbing on the city's east side Monday morning.
The stabbing was reported at about 7:30 a.m. Monday, when Wesleyville police were called to a residence in the 2400 block of Union Avenue in the borough on a report of a stabbing.
The victim, identified by police as Chris Margosian, 28, told police that he had been stabbed earlier that morning near East 20th and Brandes streets in Erie. Margosian said he was in the area when he saw a man in the middle of the street who appeared sick or injured. When he went to check on the man, Margosian said, the man pulled out a gun and demanded Margosian's wallet, then produced a knife and cut Margosian, Erie police said.
Margosian said he got the knife from the man and stabbed the man in the shoulder. He said the man ran off with the knife stuck in his shoulder, according to police.
Margosian was taken by private vehicle to Saint Vincent Health Center for treatment of cuts to his arm and above his left eyebrow, police said.