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Young people unwilling to make sacrifices to get on property ladder
The attitude of young people towards renting is changing as many find themselves priced out of the property market, a study showed today.
There has been a marked shift in the opinions of 20 to 45 year olds towards homeownership, with many now accepting that renting enables them to live in a property they would either not be able to afford to buy or would have to make years' of sacrifices to do so, according to Halifax.
The trend represents a marked shift from when the research was first carried out in 2011, when young people wanted to buy a home, but either could not afford to do so or dared not try to for fear of being rejected by mortgage lenders.
But the latest research found that one in five 23 to 27 year olds claim they have no desire to own a home, while 46 per cent think Britain is becoming more like Europe, where renting is the norm.
Young people are also increasingly unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to get on to the property ladder.
The study found that 86 per cent of potential homeowners refused to sacrifice the quality of accommodation they currently lived in to help them save more towards a deposit.
At the same time, 54 per cent were not prepared to make other sacrifices to get on to the property ladder, and 57 per cent would not compromise on the quality of the first home they bought.
Craig McKinlay, mortgages director at Halifax, said: "With attitudes softening towards the social implications of renting, and the number of people who say they will never own a property increasing, we may be heading towards the point where the aspiration to own a nice home will be replaced by the aspiration simply to live in one.
"It seems that people are now beginning to accept a lifetime of renting and this would not only change the way the property ladder looks in the future, it could even bring into question whether or not it will exist at all for some people."
But 40 per cent of people still said they did not want to raise children in a rented property, and 51 per cent worried that renting would have a negative impact on their retirement, although both figures were lower than last year.
Halifax also pointed out that the average cost of renting a home in the UK was now £1,488 a year more than owning one.
It added that the availability of 95 per cent mortgages had increased significantly during the past year, while schemes such as the Government's Help to Buy should make it easier for people to get on to the property ladder.
Mr McKinlay said: "Researching the market and accessing the support that is available for first-time buyers could make a real difference in realising the dream of owning your own home."
The plight of first-time buyers has not been helped by recent strong gains in house prices, which have left the average home in England costing £259,745, according to Zoopla.
The Office for National Statistics also recently reported that house prices in the UK had reached a new record high.
Halifax questioned 8,026 20 to 45 year olds and 1,005 parents online between February 14 and 23.
Paying over the asking price is reality for one in five buyers
One in five buyers paid more than the asking price in March as competition for properties intensified, figures showed today.
The average number of properties estate agents had on their books fell for the sixth consecutive month during March to stand close to a 10-year low, the National Association of Estate Agents said.
But the shortage of stock did not stop the number of sales agreed per branch rising to an average of 10 during the month.
The combination of limited supply and fierce competition among buyers led to 19 per cent of properties selling for more than their asking price.
Jan Hÿtch, president of National Association of Estate Agents, said:"The supply crisis continues to deepen, and the Government must act now to offer house hunters hope in an increasingly congested market.
"Current conditions mean that in just a few months we've seen a large increase in the amount of people willing to offer over market price to secure homes."
But buyers can still find properties with reduced prices if they do their research.
Here are some properties with reduced asking prices:
1. Six bedroom detached period stone farmhouse in Skipton reduced from £735,000 to £675,000.
2. Seven bedroom detached house in Brentwood reduced from £885,000 for £835,000
3. Six bedroom detached house in Plymouth reduced from £2,500,000 to £2m.
Top 10 kitchens chosen by you
With well over 450 stunning kitchens now pinned we thought it was time to share the top 10 most popular. From sleek and shiny to rustic and rural there's something for everyone. Pin your own favourite on our Kitchen Heaven Pinterest board.
1. A beautiful country kitchen to match a stunning country house.
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2. Barn conversion with authentic beams.
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3. Classic clean look show home kitchen.
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4. A close 4th with only 1 pin in the difference this stunning new build offers a very sleek kitchen.
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5. Just look at all that space, what's not to love?
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6. We love this indoor outdoor style kitchen diner.
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7. A beautifully bright, no fuss kitchen.
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8. There is a real escape to the country feel about this home and the kitchen accentuate the theme.
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9. High gloss modern finish, a nice change to the popular country kitchen theme.
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10. We love this mix of rustic wooden beams with stately chandeliers, matches the country abode very well.
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Send us a link via Twitter to your #propertyoftheweek on Zoopla and our favourites will feature on the blog every Friday.
UPDATED: Mortgage advances up a third as market continues to recover
Total mortgage advances have soared by a third during March as the market continues to recover, figures showed today.
A total of £15.4bn was advanced during the month, 4 per cent more than in February and 33 per cent above the level seen in March 2013, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said.
Lending during the first quarter was also significantly ahead of a year earlier, with an estimated £46.3bn advanced in the three months to the end of March, 37 per cent upon the same period of 2013.
But the figure was 10 per cent below advances for the fourth quarter of last year, when lending levels were particularly high.
Bob Pannell, chief economist at the CML, said: "Alongside benign developments in the wider UK economy and the labour market, housing market sentiment continues to strengthen."
But he added that while the trend for strong year-on-year growth was continuing, the underlying profile appeared to be a "little gentler than in recent months".
Signs of a slight slowdown in lending levels are likely to calm speculation that a bubble could be developing in the property market.
Strong gains in house prices have left the average home in England costing £259,745, according to Zoopla.
The Office for National Statistics also recently reported that house prices in the UK had reached a new record high, with growth in London soaring by 17.7 per cent during the year to the end of February, while across the UK as a whole prices rose by 9.1 per cent.
But Bank of England figures showed the number of mortgages approved for house purchase actually dipped slightly during February, suggesting demand for property may be easing slightly.
Meanwhile, the CML said lenders appeared to be ready for the implementation of new lending rules on April 26, which will see tougher affordability criteria applied to borrowers.
Mr Pannell said: "There are currently no signs of significant market disruption, arising from the imminent application of new lending rules associated with the Mortgage Market Review.
"While some mortgage lending indicators have eased back gently, this is from the very high levels of recent months."
But he added that glitches could not be ruled out and some lenders may suffer from demand running ahead of their ability to process applicants in the short term.
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, said: "The lending market continues to strengthen as a result of the combination of cheap finance and lenders with a real appetite to lend.
"With the economic recovery continuing apace – unemployment falling, wages rising and inflation edging off further – the markets are anticipating an early interest rate rise."
But he added that Bank of England Governor Mark Carney had repeatedly played down expectations of an early rate rise, and any hike in the official cost of borrowing could be delayed until next year or after the General Election.
Alesha Dixon the 'Britain's Got Talent' judge sees former home for sale
With its detached gym, decked terrace with hot tub and a Hollywood style vanity area in the bedroom, this spruced up bungalow is fitting of anyone in the entertainment industry.
The three bedroom property is understood to have once been the home of singer and television personality Alesha Dixon, who lived there for two years.
In the popular location of Welwyn Garden City – where Alesha grew up – the house is now on the market for £1.150,000
Dixon reappeared on our screens last weekend as a judge on Britain's Got Talent, alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and David Walliams.
She first found fame as part of the all-female band Mis-Teeq, before later appearing as a contestant – and then judge – on Strictly Come Dancing.
The Hertfordshire property is named Rosewood and has been extensively refurbished, boasting high gloss white cabinets with stricking glass splash backs, an inset television overlooking a sunken style bath and a Japanese garden.


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AUSTIN -- In a few months, the City of Austin plans to build a controversial million-dollar pedestrian bridge in Northeast Austin.
On Wednesday, council member Laura Morrison convened a special meeting to discuss it with residents who feel it will bring crime to their neighborhood.
The meeting comes one month after a KVUE Defenders investigation showed how some believe the City broke promises to do it. Andy Pierrotti explains why residents still feel disappointed after that meeting.
Behind closed doors, residents spoke with city staff, but left more disappointed than before walking inside.
"I thought the meeting was a sham, a complete sham," explained Duggan Flanakin, a Heritage Hills resident in Northeast Austin.
In December, the KVUE Defenders showed Heritage Hills residents fighting to prevent the City from building a bridge across North Walnut creek. The bridge will connect them to the Windsor Hills neighborhood.
"We think it's a great idea. We just don't think that connecting a high-crime area to a low crime area is the way to do it," argued Mary Jo Hernandez in December.
According to 2009 city records reviewed by the Defenders, we found city staff and the planning commission then recommended the bridge only be built "if crime rates [have] been significantly reduced" in Windsor Hills.
But the Defenders found that didn't happen in the entire neighborhood. For example, the Austin Police Department reported 10 crimes in Heritage Hills in November. None of them were violent. During that time period in Windsor Hills, there were 53 crimes; 10 of those were assaults involving weapons, suffocation and robberies.
At Wednesday's meeting, Asst. Chief Brian Manley showed that violent crime decreased 19 percent on the roads leading up to the bridge since 2009. He also admits the entire neighborhood saw an increase.
"I believe we've seen a slight uptick in the over-all crime in the Runberg corridor. I want to say in the one percent range," explained Manley.
At the meeting, the City provided more details about the bridge's design. Staff explained that it will be illuminated and areas underneath the bridge will be filled with cement to prevent loitering.
The bridge could allow hundreds of Windsor Hill students to cross the creek and walk to Hart Elementary School.
Austin ISD says that could potentially remove up to seven buses off the streets in two years. No one has told parents, like Dawn Harris, about that.
"What if there's a crossing guard there?" KVUE asked.
"It doesn't matter," Harris said. "I wouldn't want my child to walk by herself. She's only seven years old."
Chief Manley says a new million-dollar grant will pay for extra patrols in the area.
At the meeting, Heritage Hills residents were hoping to convince the City to postpone building the bridge until the City determined if the grant reduced crime.
"It was shot down in a nice way I guess," said Courtney Dibrell, who lives directly across the creek in Heritage Hills.
"We did talk about that. From my point of view, it really makes sense to be working all of these things together," argued council member Morrison.
Two and a half years ago Morrison asked the City to delay the bridge.
"We need to see serious improvements and have a discussion at the council level before proceeding with that bridge in particular because of the crime issues," she said at the 2009 meeting.
Morrison has no plans to ask the city council to delay it again.
"At this point, it doesn't look like there's much hope," said Dibrell.
Construction could start as early as April.

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Pongracic: Competition and the Market Process
Recorded: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Ivan Pongracic discusses the fundamentals of how competition enables the market process. Talk given on June 18, 2013 in Colorado Springs, CO.
Experts: Ivan Pongracic Jr.Type: TelevisionIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy
Anthony Gregory on Scott Horton Show
Recorded: Friday, April 19, 2013
Anthony Gregory, Research Fellow and author of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the Kings Prerogative to the War on Terror, speaks to the anniversary of the Waco atrocity.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power, Law Enforcement, Religion
Waco, Twenty Years LaterWhat Statism Is All About
Recorded: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Twenty years ago, Americans witnessed the greatest law enforcement atrocity in modern U.S history. On February 28th, 1993, the ATF raided the Branch Davidian home in Waco, Texas. The stand-off finally ended 51 days later, on April 19th, after the building went up in flames, killing 70 civilians including more than 20 children. Reflections by Independent Institute Research Fellow Anthony Gregory.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: Independent Institute TVIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Law Enforcement, Religion
Ben Powell on Monopoly and Antitrust
2012 Summer Seminar for High School Students
Recorded: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
This presentation is from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for high school students, which was held from June 18 to 22, 2012, at the Independent Institute Conference Center, Oakland, California.
View videos and more information about the Summer Seminars.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Free Market Economics
Robert Nelson on Environmentalism as Religion
Recorded: Monday, May 21, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Nelson, author of The New Holy Wars talks about the the religious implications between church, state, and environmentalism with Anthony Gill on Research on Religion.
Experts: Robert H. NelsonType: RadioIssues: Culture/ Society, Environment, Religion
Clifford Thies on the American Economic Association and Richard T. Ely
Recorded: Monday, November 28, 2011
The American Economic Association (AEA) takes pride in celebrating its founder Richard T. Ely. This pride is strange, given the character of Elys thought, which is revealed in The Independent Review article The Shaping of a Future Presidents Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at The Hopkins by Gary M. Pecquet and Clifford F. Thies, as well as the Econ Journal Watch article Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by Clifford F. Thies and Ryan Daza. In this podcast, Thies is interviewed by the economist Lawrence H. White and explores Elys ideas, values, and impact. Thies is the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University.
Experts: Clifford F. Thies, Lawrence H. WhiteType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Economists, Government Power, Immigration, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Race Issues, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion, Science, Welfare
Benjamin Powell on New Financial Regulations
Recorded: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Benjamin Powell, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, speaks on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch on regulations in the financial marketplace.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Banking and Finance, Religion
Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in America
Recorded: Thursday, October 7, 2010
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Experts: Steven F. Hayward, Robert H. Nelson, Max L. Stackhouse, Alexander T. TabarrokType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Environment, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion


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General Admissions Checklist
For specific departmental application deadlines, please visit Programs of Study.
- Application Policy
- Verification of Credentials
- Application Fee
- Statement of Purpose
- Transcripts
- Letters of Recommendation
- GRE Scores
- Samples of Work
- Financial Assistance
- Supplementary Application Forms
- Mailing Instructions (Applicants are required to read and follow these guidelines.)
- Admission Decisions
- Enrollment Process for Admitted Graduate Students
Application Policy
Our online application is designed for admission to full-time graduate study in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering only. Students applying to more than one program must submit separate applications to Graduate Admissions. Please note that application information is not available to Johns Hopkins University until applicants officially submit their online applications. Apply online here.
All application documents must be provided in English (either the original or translations of the original documents) except for samples of work and letters of recommendation for the German and Romance Languages Department. For all other departments and documents, English translation services are available at World Education Services.
Verification of Credentials
Accuracy is expected in all documents provided by applicants to the full-time graduate programs. Applicants for full-time graduate admission must not make inaccurate statements or material omissions on their applications, nor submit any false materials related to or in connection with seeking admission. Violation of this requirement may result in the application being rejected.
It is, therefore, the policy of the Krieger and Whiting schools to verify all documents and credentials in support of an application. Letters of recommendation, trancripts, publications (samples of work), test scores, and supplemental documents may be traced back to their origin in order to establish authenticity. Documents uploaded into the online application are verified through TurnItIn For Admissions.
If a violation is discovered after an applicant has been admitted but prior to matriculation, admission may be rescinded. All applicants may also be subject to a background check. If a violation is discovered after a full-time graduate student has registered, the case will be reviewed by the Vice Dean of Graduate Education for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences or the Vice Dean of Education for the Whiting School of Engineering, who will determine what action is to be taken, up to and including dismissal from the University. If the discovery occurs after a degree has been awarded, the University may revoke the degree and/or take other appropriate action.
Applications and supporting documents for graduate admissions to The Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering become the property of the University. The University does not return documents to applicants, nor does it forward documents to third parties. Applicants who anticipate a need for documents submitted to the University are advised to retain photocopies or to obtain duplicate copies.
Application Fee
A non-refundable fee of $75.00 is required for each application to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, with the following exceptions: the departments of Civil Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and the Information Security Institute charge a non-refundable $25.00 application fee. Materials Science and Engineering waives the application fee for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Payment may be made online via Visa, Mastercard, or Discover.
The application fee may be waived for applicants with documented participation in one of the following programs: Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, Posse Foundation Alumni Network, Graduate Horizons, McNair Scholars Program, GEM, Vietnam Education Foundation, SACNAS, Choctaw/Chickasaw Scholarship Advisement Program, Baltimore Scholars Program, Leadership Alliance, UMBC Meyerhoff Program, LSAMP, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. For further information please complete the Contact Form (Application Requirements and Process > Application Fee Waiver Request). Requests must be made prior to submitting the application.
Statement of Purpose
The statement of purpose articulates and demonstrates an applicant's specific qualifications for a program of study. Programs are interested in an applicant's intended course of study, why that applicant wishes to pursue that field, what research or academic experience the candidate will bring to Johns Hopkins University and finally, what that applicant's end goal might be once their work is completed. (This document is submitted only through the online application.)
Writing Seminars M.F.A. Applicants
In lieu of the "statement of purpose", M.F.A. applicants should include in their writing sample a two-page introduction and critique of their work. This statement should give admissions faculty an insight into the scope and thoughtfulness of the work submitted and a sense of the student's ability to contribute to the Writing Seminars program.
Please note: The Graduate Affairs and Admissions office does not accept paper copies of the statement of purpose since applicants are expected to submit this document through the online application. The uploaded file cannot exceed 500KB in size. The document must also adhere to 1″ (inch) margins.
International Applicants: visit our International Student page for detailed information specific to international academic records.
All applicants are required to upload unofficial transcripts of all previous college and university study to their online ApplyYourself application. Failure to upload unofficial transcripts will result in an inability to complete and submit the online application.
In addition to uploading unofficial transcripts, all applicants are also required to submit official transcripts of all college and university study in sealed envelopes, or via third party electronic distributers such as Scrip-Safe, WES, or Interfolio. Official transcripts must be received by the departmental admissions deadline. Please consult with your institution to see if it participates in sending electronic transcripts. All official transcripts sent electronically should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. Mailed transcripts should be sent in their fully sealed, institutional envelopes and using our mandatory cover sheet.
Applicants should also send a list of current courses and any other courses that will be taken before beginning graduate study at Johns Hopkins that do not appear on their transcripts.
Students applying to more than one department may request to use the same set(s) of official transcripts for each application. When mailing hard-copy official transcripts, applicants must include the mandatory cover sheet, clearly noting on the cover sheet every department and corresponding ApplyYourself PIN or ID for which they have a current application. If the transcripts are being sent electronically, via third party electronic distributers such as Scrip-Safe, WES, or Interfolio, please contact us using our online contact form and select the category 'Application Requirements and Process' and sub-category 'Applying to More Than One Program'. Please note that applicants with multiple applications will still have to upload unofficial transcripts to each application separately.
Note: Transcripts for study abroad courses are not required, provided the courses and credits are listed on the transcripts of an applicant's primary degree-granting instution.
Letters of Recommendation
All letters of recommendation must be submitted electronically through the online application; no hard-copy letters will be accepted.
Applicants must provide the name and email address for each recommender when completing their online application. The delivery method for the recommendation must be marked as 'online', and the recommender's email address cannot be the same as the applicant's.
When the applicant enters all of the information, ApplyYourself will send an access email to the recommender. The access email gives the recommender a unique access code and URL to access the applicant's recommendation forms. This email will also contain the message the applicant writes for the recommender along with certain applicant information like name and contact information. If a recommender has any spam blocking software, please ensure that they have either disabled such software or "allowed" email@example.com. It is also essential that recommenders disable any popup blocking software as that may inhibit the display of important information.
Adding or deleting a recommender can only be done prior to submitting an application. Applicants need to log into their on-line application and update their Recommendation Provider List in the Recommendations section. Recommenders may only be deleted if they have not submitted a recommendation.
Note: Hard copy recommendations will still be accepted when necessary for applicants to the Department of History of Science and Technology.
The following departments require two letters of recommendation:
Computer Science (M.S.E.)
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Information Security Institute
Materials Science and Engineering
Near Eastern Studies
The following departments require THREE letters of recommendation:
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Biomedical Engineering (M.S.E.)
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Chemical Biology (CBI)
Civil Engineering
Cognitive Science
Computer Science (Ph.D.)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Management
Geography and Environmental Engineering
German and Romance Languages
History of Art
History of Science and Technology
Humanities Center
Mechanical Engineering
Physics and Astronomy
Political Science
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Writing Seminars
Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
Applicants are required to request recent GRE scores from ETS and submit them to Johns Hopkins before the application deadline. In order for your application to be reviewed, you must include the university's institution code in your request to ETS. Johns Hopkins University Schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering's institution code is 5332.
Arrangements may be made to take the GRE by contacting:
GRE/Educational Testing Service, P.O. Box 6000, Princeton, NJ 08540 or the web site at : http://www.gre.org/.
Department codes
Applicants do not need to select a department code. As long as the institutional code of 5332 has been selected, the scores will be delivered to the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering's admissions office.
GRE Subject Test
The following departments require the subject test:
Physics and Astronomy
Chemistry (or any other science or math-based GRE Subject exam)
The following departments recommend taking the subject test:
Humanities Center
Chemical Biology
Computer Science
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
IELTS and TOEFL
English Proficiency
Johns Hopkins University requires graduate students to have adequate English proficiency for their course of study. Graduate students must be able to read, speak, and write English fluently upon their arrival at the University. Successful study demands the understanding oral lectures and taking comprehensive notes during lectures. Applicants whose native language is not English must submit proof of their proficiency in English before they can be offered admissions and before a visa certificate can be issued. Johns Hopkins prefers an IELTS Academic Band Score equal to 7, or a minimum score of 600 (paper-based), 250 (computer-based), and 100 (internet-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Results should be sent directly to the Graduate Affairs and Admissions Office by either the IELTS Global Recognition System or the Educational Testing Service (ETS) which administers TOEFL. Scores sent by applicants are not acceptable.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
The IELTS examination is offered jointly by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL), The British Council and IDP: IELTS Australia. Information about the IELTS, its test centers and times are found at www.ielts.org.
IELTS Institution Name: Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering Country: USA
Applicant should contact the test center where they took the test directly and request that test scores be sent electronically using the IELTS system. All IELTS test centers worldwide are able to send scores electronically.
Test of English as Foreign language (TOEFL)
International applicants must submit an original TOEFL score (not a student or photocopy). Visiting students who cannot obtain a TOEFL bulletin and registration form locally should write well in advance of their intended test date to: TOEFL Services, Educational Testing Service, P.O. Box 6151, Princeton, New Jersey 08541-6151, U.S.A. Applications for taking the examination must be received in Princeton, New Jersey, at least four weeks prior to the date on which the test is given. For more up-to-date information, applicants should visit the TOEFL Web site at www.ets.org/toefl/
TOEFL Institution Code: 5332
Samples of Work
The following departments require each applicant to submit a sample of work, such as a paper, thesis or publication. Please consult the department before submitting any documentation. Important: The online application can only accept samples of work up to 500KB in size. The document must also adhere to 1″ (inch) margins. We only accept samples of work via paper that exceed the 500KB size limit. Please do not send duplicates of documents that were successfully uploaded to the online system.
Please note: Engineering, Arts and Sciences only accepts samples of work in English, except for the German and Romance Languages Department. (This program accepts samples of work in French, German, Italian and Spanish.)
The sample of work could be based on: (a) a term paper on a course, (b) a report on fieldwork or (c) a senior thesis.
A writing sample.
Cognitive Science
This should be a research paper or written project that demonstrates an applicant's analytical thinking. (average 10 – 20 pages)
25 pages or less of an applicant's best critical writing.
German and Romance Languages
The writing sample should be something like a term paper, something the student has published, a chapter of a dissertation. It should not be more than 50-75 pages in total. Prospective students may submit anything they feel best exemplifies their work.
A copy of what, in the applicant's judgment, is his/her best research paper. (No specific page limit.)
History of Art
A paper of significant length that demonstrates the student's ability to describe and analyze preferably on the subject of art or art history.
History of Science, Medicine and Technology
A writing sample.
Humanities Center
A writing sample.
Near Eastern Studies
The sample of written work should be related to the field or the applicant's area of concentration. It should be about 12 – 15 pages in length.
The sample of written work should reflect the applicant's area of interest, and generally does not have to be more than 20 pages in length.
Political Science
The sample of work could be based on a term paper on a course, a report on fieldwork or a senior thesis.
Psychological and Brain Sciences
A sample of an applicant's most professional writing. A published work is acceptable, but not required.
A writing sample.
Writing Seminars
Fiction – 2 to 3 short stories or a self-contained section of a novel (40 page maximum, double spaced).
Poetry – 10 poems (25 page maximum).
Financial Assistance
Applicants need to indicate a need for financial assistance on the electronic application for admission. Federal loans and work study are available on the basis of financial need to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Interested students should contact the Student Financial Services, or 410-516-8028.
Supplementary Application Forms
Supplementary application forms must be uploaded directly to the online application.
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Humanities Center
Note to Biophysics non-U.S. citizens and non-U.S. permanent resident applicants: A training grant from the National Institutes of Health provides the first two years of tuition and stipend support for graduate students in the Program in Molecular Biophysics. However, this support is limited to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. International applicants will be required to demonstrate financial support for their studies in the form provided below as part of their application, and will be required to deposit funds covering the first two years of tuition and living expenses with the University prior to April 15. If the funds are not deposited in a timely manner, any offer of admission to the Program in Molecular Biophysics will be null and void. Applicants should take these requirements into consideration when deciding whether or not to incur the expense of the nonrefundable application fee.
Admission Decisions
Applicant files are maintained by academic departments, and admission decisions are made by departmental faculty committees. Each department, therefore, will notify applicants when decisions are made. Inquiries regarding the status of an application should be directed to the appropriate department.
Note: Johns Hopkins University is a participant in the Council of Graduate School's Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows,Trainees and Assistants.


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Before James Valentine rocked sold out arenas as Maroon 5's lead guitarist and the songs he wrote sold millions of copies, he went to Lincoln Southeast High School. He played in bands such as Square and Happy Dog. He played small stages in Lincoln bars and clubs.
Now Valentine, 34, will return to his home state with the band known for such hits as "Moves Like Jagger" and "She Will Be Loved" to play CenturyLink Center Omaha for Sunday's sold-out show — one of many sold out performances on the pop-rock band's Overexposed Tour.
On a day off from the tour, we caught up with Valentine by phone at his hotel in Kansas City. We talked about sold-out shows, the band's pop sound and, of course, returning to Nebraska.
Q. How have these sold-out shows been?
A. It's been amazing. Most of the seats have filled on most of the shows. We're ecstatic. This has been the biggest tour that we've ever done. Not only with the sold-out shows, but the amount of production that we've put into this. We're carrying our own stage in the shape of our own logo. We have lasers. We have these huge video walls. It's a pretty spectacular experience.
Q. Are you playing things from the whole catalog?
A. Yeah, we are. That's another thing about this tour that's different: we've finally reached the point where we can play songs from "Songs About Jane" (released in 2002) and "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" (released in 2007) and everything. We're pretty much playing just singles — songs that were released as singles, which is cool. Even if you're a casual Maroon 5 fan, you'll be familiar with these songs that we'll be playing.
This show is definitely about the hits and the songs that people want to hear. On the road this summer, we may get back into doing some of the fan favorites.
Q. Are you excited to play in Nebraska again? Will you be seeing any old friends?
A. Absolutely. I'm stoked to be back in the motherland with my people. This weekend, in addition to seeing some of my old friends and my junior high band teacher, Mr. (Robert) Olmstead — I'm gonna see my little sister, (fashion designer Amanda Valentine). She's coming out to do a mini show, so I'm gonna hang out at Omaha Fashion Week.
Q. Do you see any of your old bandmates from Square (which Valentine left to join Maroon 5)?
A. Absolutely. They remain good friends. Our relationships were a little rocky right after I left, but we continue to be great friends. I see Ryland (Steen) a lot out in LA. Ryland was, for a while, playing drums for Chris Allen, who opened up for one of our tours. I talk to Sean Beste all the time. I'm really into his new project, "BZZZ," that he's got going on. He played me the beginnings of some of those tracks the last time I hung out with him and I love them.
Q. Do you ever look around now with "Moves Like Jagger" being huge and you guys selling out these huge arenas and wonder how you got here?
A. Totally. That's why I love playing in Nebraska and coming back. It really reminds me of how incredibly lucky I am and that I somehow got to have the sort of life that I dreamed about when I was living there. It's so cool to come back and play and connect with some of the people who helped me get there.
Q. With "Overexposed," you worked with outside producers and writers for the first time. How did you make that choice?
A. Adam (Levine) was asked to sing the hook on "Stereo Hearts," the Gym Class Heroes song, and he went in the studio to do that. He had such a positive experience working with those guys that they started working on the beginnings of "Moves Like Jagger." It was a different sort of thing.
We all said, "OK, let's give it a shot." The record that we made, "Hands All Over," was made in an old school sort of way, and it wasn't really doing well. It wasn't causing much of a stir out there, so we gave "Moves Like Jagger" a shot, finished it and put it out there and it was such as huge success.
It seemed like a clear mandate from the public that they'd like us to at least explore this direction. It was great. It was a whole breath of fresh air.
Q. Have you been working on any new material?
A. We've already been working on new stuff. With my laptop, it's more powerful than all the gear that you used to need. A lot of the songs on "Overexposed" were written out on the road. We wrote "Ladykiller" in a hotel room in Helsinki, which is really cool.
It's pretty crazy. It's much different from when my high school band paid the Mogis brothers 50 bucks a song because they were the only ones in town with Pro Tools (digital audio workstation platform).
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Why Do I Write These Articles?
So now what do we have? Some freakin' old dude sitting in a little guest house in the middle of a cow pasture in south central Texas practicing scales, chords, velocity and tonal exercises for the above-mentioned times, and an occasional Jamey Aebersold record so one can play with a rhythm section that's always on and in timeno ego trips thereand one can hit the "off" switch at any time. That's pretty much my day in that I awaken at the crack of noon, lay around playing with my golden retriever Molly, listen to my weather radio, call out to my wife of 38 years Jeanne, as in, "Hi honey, good afternoon, kiss kiss and oh, is my oatmeal ready?" And like that!
When we moved here to our very little ranch by Texas standards from southern California, we both agreed not to get a TV set. We have a screen for DVDs, so I can watch my Charlie Chan and Twilight Zone DVDs, but we have very little contact with the haps of today's goings on. I've heard it all before and it's the same old soap opera just packaged (computer graphics et al.) differently as in who's doing what to who/whom-whatever! Dig, I just found out recently that, that moon-walking dude Michael Jackson is no longer with us. R.I.P. Jeanne and I dig just sitting on our porch and watching the deer and cows and the bull doing their thing I'll take a picture of that and use it for my next album cover, No, Not a Menage a Trois. Reminds me of that ol' T-Bone Walker tune, "Oh yeah, I said, give me a home where the buffalo roam and I'll show you a filthy house." Lets get serious! (What a line.)
When I first started doing these types of things (writing articles), I never asked my editors what I should write about; if someone has to do that, then they really don't have much to say, do they? So in keeping with what Mort Weiss is about, I'll just keep writing about how, and what I feel strongly about, and that is America's only indigenous art form, jazz! I also feel strongly about Schrödinger's cat- as in like did he make it? Also the dude that made a cottage industry out of not being certain, Werner Heisenberg. And the big one, as in what's it all about? The pictures from the Hubble telescopedeep space shots of distant galaxies. Ya know, I caught up with Alfie one day, and when I asked him, he merely shrugged his shoulderssmiled, turned and walked away.
I strongly feel that teaching young people to love and how to play jazz in high schools, colleges and universities should be made a class A felony across the land along with prison sentences! First of all nobody can teach someone how to play jazz. But if some poor kid comes along that is susceptible, they (the entity that teaches same) sure as hell can fuck with his head so they, the entity, can make their bread whilst doing so and after two or three years mom and dad can proudly sit in the bleachers cheering as their son receives his diploma reading that he is proficient in the performing arts, jazz improvisation! Sheeeit! Fucking analogous to selling smack on the school grounds.
OK. Let's revisit what I've just said. What the fuck is Mort trying to tell us? (Not trying, told ya.) All right, for those of you that at this point don't get it listen up! For those of you that doyou're excused. Do something useful, like ordering one of my albums and like thatbut come back for the big ending! OK, now, you're the teacher. You know how to play your axe. You've been out theredone the club scene, the rehearsal bands (no $$) for that. You've even been on the road. You have the $300 limit credit card with the $5,000 annual fee. You've been married two or three years. You look at her; she doesn't know it but you see the lines of worry, of being tired of trying to budget the unsteady cash flow that you bring in from the occasional recording date, the two-week engagement at the big club in townyeah, man, but you're known (among your peers) as a working cat; yeah, the kid needs clothes...oh, I didn't mention the kid. Well guess what! Yep, maybe this time it will be a boy.
OK, enough already (it's hard to write with tears in my eyes). You take out your BA/BM/BS (whatever). The local two-year college has an opening in the music department teaching jazz history and performance; you apply; you get the gig; life is good; you now have a credit card with a $5,000 limit and annual fee of $300; the new apartment is great; and all is well. So there you haI almost forgot, it was another girl.
Forget the fellow above, I used him metaphorically. This goes on in public and private schools nationwide. Let me digress for a moment. Two years ago I didn't know how to turn a computer on. Now that I'm involved in cyber-type thingse.g. this article, emails, etc.
I have navigated around the web looking at jazz sites I accidentally hit a porno sitedamn, whatever happened to plain ol' sex? (I seem to keep on accidentally hitting that darn site, must be a glitch in my Mac). At any rate, these jazz sites all have writers espousing how great things are in the world of jazz and no, jazz is not on its death bed (see my article hThe State of Jazz, Coltrane Clones and the Noose of Technology) and how there are jazz festivals all over the world (there are too, I've seen one advertised in freakin' Borneo. Some of these writers who are mostly retired doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs who were originally into Pink Floyd, Journey, Rush, Gentle Giantya know, things a bit hipper then Axel Rose or Johnny Rotten (although I think emo might be where it's at; been digging Jimmy Eat World lately, the dude has something in common with Bach ya know? Sam, not J.S).
Anyway, some of these cats (the jazz writers) travel all over going to one after another festival and or jazz venue, and writing about some wonderkind or some giant of jazz that they heard in Botswana or the Ukraine. So I now go to YouTube and listen to some of these cats. Man! Some of these people make Peter Brotzmann sound like Stephen Collins Foster. Point is, change is inevitable, and what it was it was. But please don't call what's happening in the music business $$ today jazz. These so-called critics (most of them) never paid their rent from monies made playing music. Like I've said in other places, I can take you to clubs in L.A. and show you Grammy Award winners playing for $70-$80 a night, and glad that they can keep their chops upand the clubs are closing up one after another. Yo, dudes (writer types); most of you haven't the faintest idea of what's happening out there. Don't worry I haven't forgotten about our perspiring young cat, bright-eyed and bushytailed, starting his first day at Jazz U.
Yeah, I'm forgetting about the young cat! To go any further with him would only belabor the issue. So, as a musician that was born during the halcyon years of the music (jazz and swing), grew up during the huge musical paradigm shiftenter Bird & Bop (the missing link being Prez)completely understanding what was going onloving it (words can't explain the emotions that were evoked that still exist to this day), and even then knowing (if only instinctually) that the never-ending hard work that it would entail, and never end until either you did, or you quit playing, would govern and/or dictate your life's journey... well, to try to impart this to someone who hasn't committed themselves to any discipline so demanding gives me pause in what I'm trying to disseminate to the musical weekend warrior (that was almost a life sentence!).
Please don't tell me about other professions that demand such hard work and study, I'm hip to all of them and I salute those of you who might be involved in same. But! In any other profession (except professional sports) if one is high up in the food chain of jobs: One, you always can find work; and two, you can take a year off and start back where you left off. A world-class musician or a boxer can't ever stop training; if one does, the phone is sure to ring! My old chum, Terry Gibbs and I agree on one or two things. Such as, when practicing or playing your axe at home, one should be playing like you're in front of a thousand people.
Those of you that are familiar with my articles know that I like to mess with peoples' heads a tiny bit! But I am deadly serious with my solution of sorts with some of the things going on in school, re: the teaching of jazz performance. It should be mandatory in the graduating of anyone with a BA in same, that they (as part of the curriculum), have undergone an extensive course in learning to be a plumber and are skilled enough as such, to be employable at day of graduation as a plumber! This would guarantee that one could find work other than playing jazz for at least ten to fifteen years from now. With the onset of new technologies happening almost daily, I think being a plumber would give one employment (for the above mentioned time period) before someone invents a process that molecularly disassembles fecal matter and sends it and other waste by products into the sun. Don't laugh, it's coming.
What to do with all the unused sewers that traverse our cities? Ever hear of lofts? Considered very chic to live in one; usually found somewhere off skid row in some no- longer-in-use foundry or warehouse setting, rents starting in the area of $5K and up a month. It's so totally awesome stepping over passed-out winos on your way home and like that! Well, some enterprising young person will buy the right away to certain areas of sewers, clean them up, knock out a little cement here and there and bingo! The newest in tony/chic living. You got it! Sewer apartments. Drain Pads (whatever). I can see it now. Oh honey, isn't that John's manhole cover? No, I think his is just around the corner, Oy! It's been fun talking at ya, but I've got to go practice now. You never know, the phone might ring as it did in my archived AAJ article, Getting Ready for ShowtimeWhen You're the Show. I'll leave you with a thought or two. This one kind of waters down some of my own strongest feelings and that is: "The future is under no obligation to mimic the past." George Santayana, I think.
And this one's killer. "No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity. It's true, absolutely true." Artie Shaw.
Hey! It's been fun. "Live in the moment."
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Talk story about Norman Mailer and the twentieth anniversary of his film "Tough Guys Don't Dance."… Late on a recent Saturday afternoon, Norman Mailer, equipped with two canes, willed his eighty-four-year-old body up three flights of stairs in his Brooklyn Heights brownstone. He'd just flown in from Provincetown, and within the hour, fifty people were due for a cocktail party. In the fall of 1986, Mailer, using Provincetown as his locale, directed a film adaptation of his novel "Tough Guys Don't Dance." The reviews tended not to flatter. No matter-the virtually unanimous opinion of the "Tough Guys" cast and crew was that working on the picture was a great adventure, and they adored the director. "Tarantino before its time," according to the film's producer, Tom Luddy, who, along with production coordinator Caroline Baron, tracked down the "Tough Guys" alumni for a twentieth-anniversary get-together. After a quick post-flight nap, Mailer made his way to the living room. The guest were delighted to see him and an hour or so into the party, everyone gathered to explain what their roles had been in the making of the film. Only Ryan O'Neal couldn't make it. Leslie Shatz, the sound designer, described Mailer's perfectionist quest to capture the sound of a punch in the face. "He hit himself at least twenty times-in the face and the chest-until we finally got it right. I saved the sound effect, and I've used it in about twenty movies. I always tell other directors, 'You hear that? That's Norman Mailer punching himself. He's in your movie.' "
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Step 2 Trace the circle onto a sheet of tracing paper for a pattern. Cut out the pattern. Make sure you cut out the circle but not the triangle. The triangle will guide you when it is time to fold.
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Such a thought has, over many centuries, been the precursor to explosions, amputations, marriages, and most of my previous relationships.
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Thursday, January 27, 1966
It is a high honor to be awarded the Silver Q.uill., and, especia.l.l.y,
to share the award with Everett McKinley Dirksen. The Senator from Il.l.inois
is not only an esteemed friend of many years standing, he is also properly
identified as Mr. Republican Party in the Senate, or Mr. Republican in the
nation, or Mr. Minority Leader of the Senate.
It is in the latter role that I most frequently meet with Senator
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only during my waking hours on the Senate floor but also in an occasional.
Now we meet again this evening. We meet not as adversaries but
as joint participants in these brief but highly literate proceedings. 1In
anticipation of the occasion, I sought to find some explanation in lexicog-raphy
for the phenomenon known as Everett McKinley Dirksen, Senate Minority
Leader. In the dictionary, listed under "leader," along with more customary
definitions, there is also one which reads: "--l.eader--something for guiding
f ish into a trap." This def inition obviously does not apply to me 1 since I
do not fish. It would, perhaps, be too obvious in the light of 14-B to state
that it might app~ to the Republican leader.
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Searching further, one find.s under "maJority" the defilli tion "a ..
group having a sufficient number of votes necessary for control." That
does not appear to apply to the group in the Senate which calls me leader,
ill an::J event, not vi thin the framework of the current extended debate on
l4(b). Again, it is, perhaps, too obvious to state that it is more apt as
a description of the group headed by the Republican leader since he has no
control-problem in extending the debate.
So when the two definitions are combined and put where they
obviously belong, after the name of the distinguished Minority Leader,
we find that Everett McKinley Dirksen may be defined as: "a phenomenal.
leader certainly having a sufficient number of votes to guide the fish of
the Senate into his trap."
I must say that this definition of Senator Dirksen, accurate
as it is in the light of the current proceedings on 14-b, is not fully
satisfying. It is not complete. It says nothing of his immense service
over man::J decades to party, state, and nation. It says nothing of the
impassioned and compelling debate he has contributed time and again to
Senate deliberations. It says nothing of the leadership he has provided,
time and again, in international and domestic affairs. When the chips of
patriotism are down, his have invariably been placed, before all else,
on the high interests of the nation. It was so when Dwight D. Eisenhower
was President. It was so when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was President. It
is so with Lyndon B. Johnson, as President.
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The role of Everett Dirksen was, for example, decisive--and the
word is used advisedly--in the passage of the historic Civil Rights Acts
of 1964 and 1965. His contribution, too 1 was great to the Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty. Time and aga1n1 he has lent his vitality, his voice, his vote, to
a legislative cause which, regardless of party or personal popularity, he
deems, with deep conviction, to be vital to the nation in its domestic
tranqu111ty1 its international relations or its fundamental validity.
Everett Dirksen and I have differed many times over the years.
Our votes on the major controversial issues, more frequently than not,
show up on opposite sides of the tallies of the Senate. Yet, as MaJority
Leader, I have no hesitancy whatsoever in stating that the record of the
88th Congress and the first session of the 89th owe an :1Jmnense debt to the
contribution of the distinguished Minority Leader. His has been a wise,
cooperative and understanding participation in tl.e work of the Senate. As
maJority leader through these years I acknowledge freely that I have been
a1ded1 although not necessarily abetted, by a great Republican leader who
is1 even more, a great Senator and a great American.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 43, Folder 28, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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Orrick Total Access Presents: Building Your Team
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (PST)
Santa Monica, CA
You're invited to attend Orrick's complimentary TOTAL ACCESS program, held at Cross Campus in Los Angeles, focused on team-building.
Idea, product, go! Is it time for you to build out your team? Come join us for this session focused on everything you need to know about building a team, legal implications to be aware of, and best practices as you begin or continue this process.
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This is the second event in a series. The first one was over-subscribed, so make sure to RSVP now!
If you have any questions, please contact Joyce Chuang at 650-289-7178.
About the Session Leader:
Daniel Friedland, a partner at Orrick, is the leader of the firm's Emerging Companies Group in Southern California. The group advises companies at all stages of development, as well as venture capital firms and investment banks.
Mr. Friedland specializes in working closely with founders, executive officers and venture capitalists on the formation, financing and ongoing operation of technology, consumer/retail, media and other businesses. Mr. Friedland has significant experience in venture capital financings, private equity, public offerings, mergers & acquisitions and licensing transactions.
Mr. Friedland was Yammer's primary attorney on all legal matters, beginning with its incorporation and culminating in its sale to Microsoft for $1.2 billion. This acquisition was the largest private technology company acquisition in the United States for 2012.
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We are a coworking, office space and event venue whose goal is to inspire creative collisions through space design and extraordinary events. Our aim is to foster member-driven collaboration that ultimately leads to game changing ideas and enterprises.
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The Grand Western Canal Country Park and Local Nature Reserve meanders through beautiful mid-Devon countryside and quiet villages between Tiverton and Lowdwells (near the Somerset border).
Canal near East Manley - John Morton, Devon County Photography
|Extending for eleven and a quarter miles, the Country Park provides a wonderful location to enjoy a peaceful walk or cycle ride along the towpath; experience a ride onboard the much-loved horse-drawn barge that has been taking passengers for trips along the canal since 1974; have a go at fishing; launch your own boat or hire a boat or a canoe.
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Ben Affleck's new film, Argo, as well as the "South Park" team's first Broadway Musical, The Book of Mormon, feature Boba Fett in the shot and on the stage, respectively.
Tipped off on Twitter by @Red5Aggie, Argo has "a vintage 12″ Boba Fett figure on the screen for a long time at the end along with many other figures."
As for The Book of Mormon, Boba Fett is mentioned in the songs "Making Things Up Again" and "Joseph Smith American Moses."
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I had heard that there is an issue with the version 5 software and the iRFR. Since i upgraded to this version i can attest to the fact that it does not stay connected. Is there a resolution coming soon? We would love to be able to use the iRFR again...someday....maybe...
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Hi Ed. Yes, we are seeing this as well. We are planning to look into this shortly. As far as I can tell, we are not the only company experiencing these issues, but are going to see if we can do something on our end to improve it.
Stand by please.
Anne Valentino
Eos Product Line Manager
Glad to see this, I have been having this problem for a while now (I guess since I updated to iOS 5, but I never made the connection). I finally got around to troubleshooting it this week and all my network settings seemed to be correct. I thought I was going crazy.
Would it be possible to set up and email list or a sticky topic to keep us up to date with what you guys find out?
Brian Ridolfo
Technical Director
Old School Square
Hi Brian. I actually thing using the forums is the most efficient way to keep you all in the loop. And we will do that.
Thanks much!
I discovered a solution based on a user having similar troubles with a Congo console. This procedure pertains to iOS 5.x devices.
On your iPod/iPhone, navigate to Settings>General>Reset and select and confirm 'Reset Network Settings'.
Your device will then reboot itself. After the reboot is complete, you will need to join your control network (wifi).
You should be able to connect and stay connected to your console at this point.
Hope this helps! Break a leg!
I haven't focused a show with it yet, but I did as you suggested on both my iPhone and iPad and was able to stay connected for twenty minutes while testing (mostly idle time). Before the reset I was happy if I stayed connected for two minutes.
Anyone having this problem should try this.
It actually seems to work. I did the reset and now my iPhone has been connected to the Ion for the last hour with no interruption. I wonder what will happen when I re-enter all my other network settings for home and work and then start jumping back and forth between networks. Time will tell.
I must take back my comment. I left the theater and returned ten minutes later. After I re-established my iPhone connection with the Ion it was up to its old tricks again losing connection every couple of minutes. Rats!
After more experimentation yesterday here is what is working for me. The reset procedure outlined previously does work as long as one does not leave the theater or at least go out of range of the theater's wireless network. If I go out of range and re-enter the network coverage area I have to go through the reset procedure again to get a stable connection between my iPhone and my Ion console. With a rehearsal that began yesterday afternoon and extended well into the evening my iPhone remained connected for over 5 hours. It's not an ideal solution since the network reset loses all networks settings that were stored but at least I have a remote unit that is working well while I am at work. Maybe the latest update to the operating system will solve the problem. I am definitely going to have to change my home network password to something easy to remember since I will need to re-enter it every time I go home now.
Seems to be the same for me. Thanks for the insight.
I discovered today in two venues that disabling encryption on the wireless network eliminates this problem. Since this eliminates the use of a passphrase, the wireless access points have been set not to broadcast their name (SSID) so the networks cannot be used by anyone not authorized to connect to them.
Hope this helps both users and the folks at ETC.
I upgraded to iOS 5.1 last week before I went into tech. I have been able to stay connected for hours on end with no problem. I currently don't have any security measures on my Router, I don't know if that makes a difference. I have been running problem free for a week now.
I'm not sure I am following your fix... Can you explain it in more detail? (especially the SSID and authorized access bits)
I hate not being able to use my iPad for dimmer check...and I'm not going to go the "network reset" path ...
Hopefully ETC ( or Apple) will fix this soon ... It's very frustrating ...
ETC are working on this at the moment. In fact there is a beta in the process which for me has solved all the problems. Hopefully it won't be long for the update.
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Sixth annual Policeman's Ball honors fallen firefighters
Posted at: 05/04/2013 10:52 PM | Updated at: 05/04/2013 11:26 PM
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Some very special heroes were remembered Saturday night at the 6th annual Policeman's Ball.
The event was held at the Riverside Convention Center.
A display honored the memories of West Webster firefighters Mike Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka and New York State trooper Amanda Anna, all of whom were killed in the line of duty.
The event is organized by the Badge of Honor Association (BOHA), which covers 23 counties in New York.
The event was open to all first responders and their families and friends, as well as community supporters of law enforcement.
"We've gotten a ton of support from the community as far as donations and people wanting to help our organization. We have a lot more volunteers now and I think the biggest change we've seen is we see officers from throughout the region," said Rochester Police Sergeant Justin Collins.
Police officers involved in critical incidents in 2012 from Rochester, Buffalo, Ithaca and Fairport, were also honored Saturday night.
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In the week since she first ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin, of Cranberry, is continuing to grab headlines.
Fox News reported Wednesday that a second Miss USA contestant has stepped forward to collaborate Monnin's story that she heard Miss Florida, Karina Brez, reveal the list of finalists backstage before the pageant's Top 15 were announced June 3.
The contestant, who spoke to Fox on the condition of anonymity, said Brez appeared upset and flustered as she revealed the names.
"I thought it might be because she didn't make the top 15 cut, but at that point she was able to reveal to me at least four of the five names who went on to be the top girls," the woman told Fox. "She couldn't remember the fifth because she was so upset. Several of the girls then started hearing through the grapevine about a list; a lot of people were upset."
Monnin that Brez saw a list of the top five women in the pageant before judging began on the show.
"Apparently the morning of June 3rd she saw a folder lying open to a page that said 'FINAL SHOW Telecast, June 3, 2012' and she saw the places for Top 5 already filled in," Monnin said. "Thinking she was just seeing a rehearsal fake top 5 from a previous day she walked away, then realized that it had without a doubt been labeled as the Final Show Telecast, June 3rd."
Monnin also called the Miss USA organization fraudulent, lacking in morals and trashy.
Branding the Cranberry resident a "sore loser" who didn't deserve to be in the top 15 contestants, Miss Universe co-founder Donald Trump immediately fired back and told NBC's Today show he would file a lawsuit against Monnin.
Brez also strongly denied Monnin's claims and she said mentioned the list as "a throwaway comment" and "never meant as fact."
Referring to her years of psychological training, the 27-year-old beauty queen said in an appearance last Friday on the Today show that she didn't take Brez's words as a joke.
"I feel prepared to continue to pursue the truth," she told interviewer Ann Curry. "I know what I heard and I know what I in turn witnessed come true."
The Miss Universe organization, which runs the Miss USA pageant, has said the real reason Monnin resigned is because she disagreed with a new policy allowing transgendered contestants into the competition.
On Tuesday, TMZ also posted a text message given to it by the Miss USA organization where Monnin appears to criticize Miss Colorado Marybel Gonzalez and Miss South Carolina Erika Powell. Both women made the Top 16 women in last Sunday's televised contest.
"Colorado? South Carolina? I'm done. This is ridiculous. It's obviously rigged so the girl they want can shine; they kept several beautiful girls out for that reason," the text to a pageant official reads.
Miss USA organization officials also confirmed to Fox News that they have filed legal action against Monnin.
"The Miss Universe Organization intends on pursuing all of its legal rights and remedies, including monetary damages, against Ms. Monnin for her ongoing defamatory statements," a rep said in a statement to Fox News.
What do you think of Monnin's troubles? Will you continue to back her—or do you think this is all sour grapes? Is Trump is a bully? Leave your opinions in the comment section.


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And then for one instant I'm not quite alone...
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I'm JT. I'm an English/Literature major with a minor in Philosophy.
An existential crisis in the making.
Joe Strummer, Pete Townshend, Trey Anastasio, Brian Fallon, Patrick Stickles, Albert Camus, and Walt Whitman are my heroes.
Poet. New Englander. Phan. Marxist. Atheist. Existentialist. Feminist. 19th Century Russian Literature Reader. Record Spinner. Philosopher. Future Professor. Library Dweller.
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
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FedExshares still have room to climb, despite the fact that the package-delivery giant slashed itsfiscal 2013 profit outlook, two analysts said Tuesday.
"From a long-term perspective, I think FedEx is going to be able to figure out how to restructure operations to really drive a better outcome overall and leverage where the growth is in the networks so I would be sticking with the stock," said Brandon Oglenski, a transportation analyst at Barclays.
Earnings for the just-ended first quarter were dragged down by the company's express division, where operating earnings fell 28 percent, as consumers are proving less willing to pay higher prices to ship things quickly.
Despite the continued consumer trend of trading down to less expensive services, Oglenski told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" that he has a "buy" rating on the company's shares, along with a $107 price target.
FedEx is not the only package-delivery company to cut its full-year outlook in recent months. In late July, rival United Parcel Service cautioned that lagging global economic growth would hamper its earnings during the next year.
Jim Corridore, an analyst at S&P Capital IQ, is also optimistic. He has a "strong buy" rating and a $122 price target on the company's stock.
"I don't think what you're seeing is a long-term shift to ocean from air," Corridore said. "I think what you're seeing is the global macroeconomic picture in China, in Europe, in the U.S. is not as strong as earlier was expected."
Corridore expects this trend to shift back once the economy rebounds.
If the economic outlook does improve, either domestically or globally, Corridore said he thinks the company has a "great deal" of operating leverage to grow its profit margins.
"The stock is still trading well below the low end of its historical range," he said. "It's trading below the market. We think this is a bellwether company that has its thumb on the pulse of what's going on in the economy."
—By CNBC.com's Katie Little;Follow Her on Twitter @katie_little
Additional News: Big Rebound in Profits May Be Coming
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My teaching and research interests are, broadly defined, in the intersections of medieval literature, history, and theory. My research focuses on romance narratives as well as on medieval theatre, poetry, chansons de geste, and medical and theological discourses. In earlier projects I have explored the intersections of medieval theories and practices of queenship with romances about adulterous queens, and the ways in which gendered cultural values are mapped onto representations of blood.
My current projects include a book on human/nonhuman embodiment in medieval texts tentatively entitled In the Skin; an English translation of Gui de Cambrai's Old French Barlaam et Josaphat; and a book called The Christian Buddha, co-authored with my colleague, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., on the circulation and reception of Barlaam and Josaphat.
Recent and Selected Publications
Co-editor, with E. Jane Burns, From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).
"Skin and Sovereignty in Guillaume de Palerne," Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistiques 24 (2012): 361-75.
Co-author, with Sharon Kinoshita, Marie de France: A Critical Companion (Boydell and Brewer, 2012).
"The Human and the Floral," in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen (Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 65-90. http://punctumbooks.com/titles/animal-vegetable-mineral-ethics-and-objects/
Co-editor, with Karl Steel, "The Animal Turn in Medieval Studies," Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 2.1 (2011).
"Animals and Translation in the Lais of Marie de France," Australian Journal of French Studies 46.3 (2009): 238-49.
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The Medieval Posthuman
Medieval Natures
Animality and sexuality
The romances of Chrétien de Troyes
Medieval lives, medieval selves (co-taught with Catherine Brown)
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France and the crusades
Introduction to medieval literature
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Greetings Programs! In this issue, Kielen and Aaron are joined by The Lovely Jenn as they talk adventures in Seattle and Shanghai. Next, the gang has a fantastic conversation with Rick Burchett, artist and co-creator behind the fantastic comic series, Lady Sabre & the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether. Rick delves deep into the challenges and excitement of a completely grassroots webcomic and translating it into a Kickstarter success. Be sure to hit the release event on Saturday, April 5 at Bridge City Comics. Then, Kielen provides a spoiler-free review of Captain America – The Winter Soldier. As always, thank you so much for listening.
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