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Nebraska is home to about 35 not-for-profit colleges and universities. See rankings of the best and most affordable schools in Nebraska to determine which schools might be right for you.
School Ranking Overview
The state of Nebraska has many different colleges and universities to choose from. There are state university campuses in multiple cities, along with very affordable community colleges for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information on each school has been presented in order to provide an easy guide for prospective students. The schools have been compared to one another based upon:
- Most Program Variety
- Lowest Net Price
- Highest Graduation Rate
- Lowest Student-Faculty Ratio
Most Program Variety
Some students prefer schools that have a broad mix of programs from which to choose. The three Nebraska schools listed below have the most undergraduate and graduate program variety in the state.
1 - University of Nebraska - Lincoln
This state school in Lincoln offers students the most variety with roughly 197 programs. In 2011, it was common for students to major in business, engineering, family and consumer sciences, education and agriculture, according to U.S. News & World Report. In the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges, the school ranked as the 101st best national university and 46th best public school. Undergraduate programs in business and engineering were also ranked. Among graduate programs ranked in the top 50 were audiology, speech-language pathology, the online business program, special education and ceramics.
2 - Northeast Community College
Located in Norfolk, this public community college gives students a good variety of options with roughly 113 programs. Students can earn certificates and associate degrees at this school. Programs vary from agronomy and graphic design to journalism and wind energy.
2 - University of Nebraska - Omaha
This public school in Omaha also offers about 113 programs of study. At this school, undergraduate students frequently majored in business, education, biology, communications and public safety, based on 2011 data reported by U.S. News & World Report. The same source ranked the school 11th best for its online bachelor's degree programs in 2013. Graduate programs in public affairs and criminology ranked in the top 50.
Lowest Net Price
The average net price for a college or university is determined by subtracting the amount of government or institutional financial aid a student receives from the total cost of attendance. The three traditional Nebraska schools with the lowest net prices, listed below, were determined using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for the 2010-2011 academic year. Generally, the net price for Nebraska schools varies from more than $5,000 a year to nearly $25,000 a year. It's common for community colleges to offer students the most affordable options for their postsecondary studies.
1 - Mid-Plains Community College
Located in North Platte, this public community college has the lowest net price of $5,737. During the 2012-13 school year, in-state students paid $2,760 in tuition and fees, while out-of-state students paid $3,450, according to the NCES. Most students at this community college receive financial aid. During the 2010-11 school year, 91% of full-time, beginning undergraduate received grants, loans and scholarships to help pay for school. During the same year, 46% of all undergraduate students received, on average, $5,070 in grant or scholarship aid.
2 - Western Nebraska Community College
This Scottsbluff school is another economical option with its net price of $5,840. During the 2012-13 school year, in-state tuition and fees were $2,316, while out-of-state students paid an estimated $2,652, according to the NCES. During the 2010-11 school year, 89% of full-time, beginning undergraduate students received financial aid. An average amount of $5,140 in grant or scholarship aid was awarded to 55% of all undergraduate students during that school year.
3 - Northeast Community College
Along with the previous two schools, students can also consider this college as a value, which has a net price of $6,043. According to the school website, in-state students paid $2,837 in tuition and fees during the 2012-13 school year. Out-of-state students paid an estimated $3,426. On-campus housing is available at this community college, which cost an estimated $6,043 for the 2012-13 academic year, per the NCES. During the 2010-11 school year, 85% of full-time, beginning undergraduate students received financial aid to help cover the cost of school.
Highest Graduation Rate
The overall graduation rate for a school includes the percent of students who completed their studies in 150% of 'normal time' (for example, six years for a bachelor's program). Based on NCES figures for full-time students, the following traditional, 4-year Nebraska schools had the highest graduation rates in 2011.
1 - Creighton University
Located in Omaha, this private school has an overall graduation rate of 77% for students who enrolled in fall 2005, giving it the highest graduation rate among traditional postsecondary schools in Nebraska. The school has a number of academic support services for students, which include drop-in and individual tutoring. Between the 2010 and 2011 school years, the retention rate for full-time undergraduate students was 88%, according to the NCES.
2 - University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln recorded an overall graduation rate of 67% for students beginning their studies in 2005, putting the school in second place. This state university offers specialized academic centers for math, engineering, Spanish and chemistry students. In addition, students can get writing help for a variety of assignments. The retention rate was 84% for full-time, first-time undergraduate students between 2010 and 2011, while part-time students had a retention rate of 47%, according to NCES.
3 - Nebraska Wesleyan University
Taking the bronze is this Lincoln school, which has an overall graduation rate of 64% for students who enrolled in fall 2005. Students have access to tutors as well as a virtual academic success center to learn how to improve time management, study skills and motivation. The retention rate for full-time, first-time undergraduate students was 85% between 2010 and 2011, according to the NCES.
Lowest Student-Faculty Ratio
Some students look for schools that have low student-faculty ratios because they may promote a small campus feeling. The three Nebraska schools listed below had student-faculty ratios of 10:1 or less as of fall 2011, based on NCES figures. Other schools in the state have student-faculty ratios as high as 39:1.
1 - Midland University
Located in Fremont, this school maintains a ratio of 10:1 for its roughly 1,030 undergraduate and graduate students. The school doesn't have any faculty for research and public service. Rather, the 43 full-time faculty and 52 part-time faculty focus on instruction, according to the NCES.
1 - Union College
With a student population of 886 undergraduate and graduate students in 2011 (per the NCES), this Lincoln school ties for first position with a student-faculty ratio of 10:1. This small school in a large city offers associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs. According to the NCES, there were 59 full-time faculty and 43 part-time faculty in 2011, all dedicated to instruction.
2 - Mid-Plains Community College
This community college is the largest school in the state with a student-faculty ratio of 11:1. According to the NCES, the school enrolled 2,623 undergraduates in 2011. Most students, 62%, attended on a part-time basis. The school employed 67 full-time and 218 part-time instructional faculty the same year, according to NCES.
Nebraska Schools At A Glance
|School Name
|School Type
|Degrees Offered
|Area Ranking
|Creighton University
|4-year, private; not-for-profit
|1- to less than 2-year certificates; associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees; postbaccalaureate and post-master's certificates
|Highest Graduation Rate
|Midland University
|4-year, private; not-for-profit
|Bachelor's and master's degrees
|Lowest Student-Faculty Ratio
|Mid-Plains Community College
|North Platte
|2-year, public
|Less than 1-year and 1- to less than 2-year certificates; associate degrees
| Lowest Net Price,
2nd Lowest Student-Faculty Ratio
|Nebraska Wesleyan University
|4-year, private; not-for-profit
|Less than 1-year certificates; bachelor's degrees; postbaccalaureate and post-master's certificates
|3rd Highest Graduation Rate
|Northeast Community College
|2-year, public
|Less than 1-year and 1- to less than 2-year certificates; associate degrees
| 2nd Most Program Variety,
3rd Lowest Net Price
|Union College
|4-year, private; not-for-profit
|Associate, bachelor's and master's degrees
|Lowest Student-Faculty Ratio
|University of Nebraska - Lincoln
|4-year, public
|Associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees; post-master's certificates
| Most Program Variety,
2nd Highest Graduation Rate
|University of Nebraska - Omaha
|4-year, public
|Bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees; postbaccalaureate and post-master's certificates
|2nd Most Program Variety
|Western Nebraska Community College
|2-year, public
|Less than 1-year, 1- to less than 2-year certificates; associate degrees
|2nd Lowest Net Price
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Watergate is okay, but has a lot of tourists walking the docks and things disappear - it's also a bit of a motor through the channels to get back to the bay for sailing. You can't sail in Clear lake and you must stay in the channels until you get into the bay or you will run hard aground. You might check Blue Dolphin or Seabrook Ship Yard for a slip, they are both more private than Watergate and much closer to the bay.
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This is what I have always heard too, but a sailor friend of mine who designs gasoline engines for a living laughed when I told him of my worry that a waterlift system could potentially generate damaging levels of back pressure. I will quote him: "Exhaust backpressure is absolutely not an issue. Period." He says that typical back pressure for an automobile exhaust system is around 3psi. (This corresponds to lifting a solid column of water 83 inches!) He says one year the OEM Chevy Corvette exhaust system, as designed and marketed, gave 7psi back pressure (that''s sixteen FEET of water column). His recommendation was to make the exhaust loop as high as needed to eliminate any chance of back siphoning and to not think about it again. He did say that there would be a slight drop in engine performance, but not anything significant. (We are talking about gasoline, not diesel, engines here, and naturally aspirated, not turbocharged, though even with those, while more of an issue, he thinks backpressure is not a major concern.)
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Several CTBTO stations, another source explained, have detected particles believed to be from the Fukushima nuclear complex, which has emitted radioactive steam in the days after it has suffered cooling problems due to disruptions in the power systems of the power plant. "Reykjavik is the first in Europe," the source added.
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There is a persistently romantic Indian middle-class dream that goes like this: if enough people with MBAs and other professional qualifications enter politics, they will solve the problems of poverty, casteism, communalism, corruption, violence against women, and almost any other social, economic and political evil we face. It is this dream that finds voice in a recent newspaper column by the historian Ramchandra Guha where we are told that that the induction of writers, academics, corporate executives will lead to a better politics. After all, the argument goes, such people have not only thought long and hard about how best to improve society, but are also most equipped to do so. This is a somewhat simplistic view of the relationship between education, social change and politic culture.
To begin with, Indian politics does not exist outside the social and cultural features that characterise Indian society. The idea that, say, an academic who has spent the greater part of his academic life teaching at an American university can be an effective politician in India because he has a doctorate smacks of a cargo-cult mentality. This is the belief that long-seated social and political problems can be solved by 'outside' help: MBAs and IIT graduates from outside the political system, and foreign trained experts can be parachuted into the hurly-burly of Indian politics, with their presence itself serving as a magic wand.
Indian politicians get away with communal, casteist, and misogynist sentiments because their appeal falls on fertile ground. It is not that they are able to convert us to their points of view. Rather that, too frequently,the politician and the voter share a common world of opinions and attitudes. It goes against all evidence to suggest that it is the lack of educated and decent politicians that is at the heart of our deplorable political culture. We also need to think about the nature of the electorate, as well as the simplistic equation between high educational attainment and civic and private virtue.
Our electorate consists of the highly educated who have the highest rates of sex-selective abortions, middle-class (frequently MBA-qualified) families comfortable with employing child-labour, IIT and IT graduates who provide the strongest support for conservative religious causes, and highly placed public figures who have not yet learnt the difference between social interaction and sexual harassment. Education by itself is no panacea for social problems and our educated classes have very rarely demonstrated either the will or the ability for self-examination that is the first step towards grappling with the broader social and political issues. Education by itself is no guarantee of either civic-mindedness or the political will to push progressive causes.
How valid is it to suggest that educated outsiders will improve the political system? Firstly, it is important to recognise that mainstream politics has its own rules, the most significant is that of political pragmatism, which itself is linked to electoral calculations. We might remember that Rajiv Gandhi – an educated outsider-politician – gave in to religious orthodoxy in the Shah Bano case of 1985 and, more recently, the MBA qualified Naveen Jindal of the Congress and some highly educated members of the Aam Admi Party have both defended khap panchayats. Politics has its own compunctions and the educated politician is not an automatic bulwark against regressive thinking.
In an age of consumerism, we have come to believe that our political culture can be improved through commodity logic: the educated politician is thought of as a skin-whitening cream and all we need for a better personality is to apply twice a day. Our problems are not, however, skin-deep and the educated political outsider – like all black and white ideas, this is an attractive one – is not the answer. The most progressive social policies of the last two decades or so have not come about because of such people but, rather, because the political system has been pushed to take action by committed citizens outside the political system. This is the story of, say, the Right to Education Act and the Domestic Violence Act. It is not formal qualifications in management, information technology, history or sociology that make for a better polity. What we require are politicians who can be persuaded to pursue progressive legislation in the face of a frequently conservative electorate. This requires political canniness acquired through experience, rather than the mostly uncertain promise of a formal degree.


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Grow up! Quit whining, asking for advice, you going to be a star listening to our tips?
Go out there and be a man! I started playing at like 12 with my brother who was 21, I lost, lost, lost, but had desire, so got better and wipped him. Just go do your own thing or stop whining. Can't serve? Then PRACTICE! Poor forehand? PRACTICE!
There is no magical formula we can give you to lean, do what we did, that is work our tails off to get good, lose, win, win, lose, just fight through it. Run up to 5 miles, but also do sprints. Practice against a wall, just STOP with the "If I only hold my hand ......." nonsense.
I'm sorry, I just see so many wooses on this forum, can't play there is no suggestion for you except for you to play and learn yourself, how do you think we learned?
Even those who go to Tennis Academies only learn what they are taught, Tennis is much more than what you are taught, it's like boxing, unique to you.
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learn what they preach? I think most people are smart enough to have a pretty good idea what they have to do to improve, but are just not willing to do the necessary work. I could be wrong about that. (And, yes, I'm certainly guilty of being lazy and a wuss at times.) Maybe some people really don't have a clue. But I find that hard to believe. I think it's mostly what you're talking about. Lack of willingness to do the necessary work to improve.
Supposing that someone is genuinely intellectually, analytically, and maybe even physically, challenged regarding tennis (and I might be one such person), then it follows that the only way for such a person to be competitive at ever higher levels is to actually do more experimentation, more work, more quality repetition, than more gifted competitors.
Anyway, bottom line, yeah, don't whine ... work. Or find another, maybe easier, hobby.
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Watch the first Ip Man movie with Donnie Yen. Trash the rest, boycott the latest.
I think one was great. Two was a bit of a disappointment. Three was a freak. Four is simply just too much! Leave Bruce Lee's Guru alone. Let him rest in peace, for the love of God! How many legends do you need to spin around that frail man who practiced a decidedly feminine style of Kung Fu?
For those who came in late, Ip Man was a Kung Fu exponent in Foshan, China. In 1949, he moved to Hong Kong for good, setting up a martial arts school where, drumrolls, Bruce Lee learned and excelled. For full story, google Ip Man yourself.
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Let's start with Donnie Yen, easily the best thing about the movie. We all know Kung-Fu actors start young, so when Donnie's unassuming aristocrat - yes, it is possible to play an aristocrat unassumingly - stole the movie, the question everyone was asking, was, "Where have you been?" It so happens that Donnie has been around for a quite a while. Born in 1963 to a newspaper editor father and a martial-artist mother, he began practicing at the age of four. He trained at the Beijing Wushu Academy, under master Wu Bin, who also mentored Jet Li. His first movie role was as a stunt double in Miracle Fighters (1982). He was then 19. I could give you the rest of the IMDB dope, but I'd think 1963 and 1982 would have established that his career didn't really take off. Until Once Upon a Time in China II.
Donnie played General Lan, Jet Li's nemesis in the brilliantly choreographed film. This badass role earned him a supporting role nomination. He went on to becoming the meat of the historic Kung-Fu revival in mainstream Chinese cinema. But I gotta tell you, the gesticulation, the shouting, lines like 'You traitor! I will end you' simply weren't Donnie's thing. He never seemed convincing in those roles. Where he consistently stood out, was in the martial artistry. His skill, experience and age had made him the ideal alternative to Jackie Chan and Jet Li, who were now busy embarrassing themselves in movies like Tuxedo and Romeo Must Die. Donnie continued to exhibit potential. And then, Ip Man happened.
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For once, Donnie was allowed to wind down the gesticulation and keep it subtle. He played an unassuming aristocrat in mid-1900s China. Yes, it is possible to play an aristocrat unassumingly. The most endearing part of Oriental film is the sub-text in every scene. For one (or two or three), the mildly exaggerated courtesies, the physical humour, the shared embarrassment, are somewhat common to Asian countries, particularly in the east.
Here's one instance - a rough-and-tumble northerner barges into Ip Man's home and demands a fight. Reluctantly, the master obliges. In the middle of the fight, Ip Man's son cycles into the living room on his tricycle and passes on a message - "Mother asked you to finish the fight before he breaks any more vases." Or in the very first scene, where he invites a challenger to first share lunch before out-fighting him in two minutes.
Decorum. That's the word I was looking for. Donnie exudes decorum all through; in the way he keeps his Kung-Fu private, in how he handles the new Kung-Fu 'Master' and even even in poverty, how he keeps it together. Any hint of melodrama would have curdled the character, and it was a happy coincidence that Donnie's style was a no-fat, lean meat variety.
Consequently, the scenes in which he lets a bit of the rage out, such as this one, right after a friend is shot dead, are all the more impressive.
The supporting cast was just right. No big names. A motley crew, some of whom you might recognise in movies like Kung-Fu Hustle; 10 points if you can tell me who I'm talking about.
The wife, the opportunistic policeman, the banker friend, the rough northerner, and of course, the Japanese nemesis, Miura.
Ip Man had one of the best final fights. Ever. Few Kung-Fu movies in the last two decades have relied solely on martial arts alone. Amid the excess of strings and props, this was Kung-Fu versus Karate at its most stylish. The ending of Jet Li's Fearless is the only one I can think of that is better. I will admit the final fight in Fearless is light-years ahead, but if one looked at both movies in their entirety, the distance isn't stellar.
That's it. I'm done here. I can't talk about the other movies - there have been four since, with a fifth on the way - because they're all crap. The point of this post is to ask you to watch the original Ip Man and tell more people not to watch the others.
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The phrase "summer movies" will never not mean broad, action-driven crowd-pleasers to me: I counted the days until Batman (June 23, 1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (July 3, 1991), and Jurassic Park (June 11, 1993) were released. For every Dark Knight there are 10 Prometheuses — and that's just among the films that are actually trying to be good — but the hype and anticipation of summer movies remains a fun spectator sport. (More fun than sports, anyway.) Here, 10 from Memorial Day weekend and after for which I have, as the song says, high hopes.
IT MIGHT GET LOUD — sci-fi/action
X-Men: Days of Future Past (May 23) — So far, three out of four X-Men pictures have delivered the goods. This time-traveling epic melds the cast of the first three (Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, etc.), set in "the not too distant future," with the 1960s company of 2011's X-Men: First Class (Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, what do you want from a movie, anyway? Peter Dinklage? Done.) Based on a beloved storyline from the Uncanny X-Men comic book, this one has the X-Men of a bleak future in which mutant-human warfare has scorched the Earth dispatching Wolverine back to the Nixon era to do a little history-tinkering. Why do we care? Because Bryan Singer, who directed the first two, has returned. There's a severe risk this thing could be an overcrowded, incomprehensible mess, but Singer has earned some faith. Even his Superman Returns was an interesting failure, a surprisingly gentle, muted blockbuster. At least it wasn't another cookie-cutter spandex-and-CGI multi-platform-synergy deliverable. Confidence: 70 percent.
Edge of Tomorrow (June 6) — Eerily youthful 51-year-old Tom Cruise's second humans-vs.-alien invaders flick in two years has a Groundhog Day–like premise: Each day, his character perishes in battle trying to defend Earth, then wakes up, memories intact, to live that day and fight that fight again. If we're to sit through the same battle scene several times, please let it be briefer and more bracing than the ones in every Marvel movie. The film is based on a Japanese novella by the superior (if syntactically suspect) title All You Need Is Kill. In the trailer, Cruise and Emily Blunt bound around in suits of powered armor like the kind Robert Heinlein wrote about in Starship Troopers. Cruise's late-career retrench as an action star has been working for him, mostly, and director Doug Liman is a veteran of troubled productions that emerged as solid popcorn flicks, namely, The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. (Also Swingers, lest we forget, baby.) Bill Paxton is in this, too? I'm there. Confidence: 60 percent.
Snowpiercer (June 27, limited release) — After a too-successful attempt to reverse global warming ushers in a new ice age, the remnants of humankind live aboard a massive train that never stops moving, and where a rigid class system is enforced. "Absurd!" says you. "Fable-like," says I. The South Korean–American coproduction, based on a French graphic novel and shot entirely in Prague, marks the English-language debut of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, who made 2006's fine allegorical creature feature The Host. It'll be a worldly picture, if nothing else. Chris Evans, John Hurt, and Tilda Swinton are all in it, along with two of The Host's stars, Song Kang-ho and Ko Ah-sung. Already a hit in South Korea, where it was released in August 2013, the picture sounds like a modern Soylent Green, or a smarter riff on 2013's disappointing Elysium. Confidence: 80 percent.
Lucy (August 8) — Six years into the glorious reign of Marvel Studios and still only vague, noncommittal rumblings about a Black Widow solo flick? Screw that. After Under the Skin — the best thing that's sauntered into cinemas this year — we are living in the age of Scarlett Johansson. Here she stars as a drug mule who gains superpowers after a bag of whatever she's smuggling ruptures inside her body. Quality control is nonexistent with writer-director Luc Besson, who has become the David O. Selznick of sleazy action flicks, writing and producing the Taken trilogy, among others. Here, the director of La Femme Nikita and Léon: The Professional returns to the big chair, shooting in Paris, New York, and Taipei, in the world's tallest building. I have a feeling he and Johansson will bring something out in one another. Confidence: 60 percent.
LAUGH IT UP, FUZZBALL — comedies
They Came Together (June 27) — Talk about kicking a genre while it's down. This fifth collaboration of director David Wain and star Paul Rudd sends up romantic comedies, positioning Rudd and the up-for-anything Amy Poehler as lovers and rivals. The script is by Wain and Michael Showalter, who wrote the inexhaustibly hilarious Wet Hot American Summer together. Among the cast of comedians — Bill Hader, Cobie Smulders, Ed Helms, Ken Marino — famous scowlers Christopher Meloni and Michael Shannon should really shine. Confidence: 80 percent.
Let's Be Cops (August 13) — If any movie on this list could make Godzilla seem highbrow, it's this bro-y farce about two 30-year-old frat boys who dress as policemen for a costume party before Wackiness Ensues. Why, then? The bros are Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson, who've already proven their comic chemistry on TV's New Girl. Rob Riggle is here, too, along with a lot of groin-injury jokes, presumably. Come the sweltering, skull-softening dog days of August, you'll be begging to fork over your $12. Q: Can I explain why I'm more excited for this than for 22 Jump Street? A: Not really; Channing Tatum/Jonah Hill fatigue, maybe. Confidence: 50.001 percent.
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In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange Wednesday, Megaworld announced plans to issue a new batch of fixed-rate bonds that will mature in 2023. Megaworld has been lengthening the maturity of its offshore bonds over the years, taking advantage of investors' growing comfort with its credit-worthiness as well as rising confidence on the Philippines.
Investment bank UBS AG was mandated as sole bookrunner for the new debt issuance. The size of the planned offering was not yet indicated.
"Proceeds of the issue will be used by the company for general corporate purposes," the disclosure said. The Megaworld group expects a record capex spending of P35 billion this 2013, reflecting its bullish outlook on the market. The group plans to launch more than 10 new projects in the first half of the year.
The fresh fund-raising plan was unveiled after the Philippine government recently bagged a much-coveted investment grade rating from Fitch Ratings, which is expected to benefit all Philippine issuers in the form of cheaper borrowing costs.
The last time Megaworld braved the offshore debt market was in 2011 when it raised $200 million from the sale of seven-year bonds at a coupon rate of 6.75 percent. In the 2011 fund-raising, Megaworld—an unrated issuer in the overseas debt market—benefited from oversubscription even without having to conduct a road show. Prior to that, Megaworld tapped the offshore bond market in July 2006 with a $100-million, five-year debt issue.
The Megaworld group comprises high-end property brand Megaworld and its associates Empire East Land Holdings and Suntrust Properties, which focus on medium-cost and affordable housing, respectively. The group sold more than P63.5 billion in residential projects in 2012, translating into a total saleable area of more than 550,000 square meters, a 71-percent growth from its performance in 2011.
Megaworld is a pioneering developer of integrated live-work-play-learn township communities in the Philippines. In Metro Manila, these townships include Eastwood City in Quezon City, Newport City in Pasay City, and McKinley Hill, McKinley West and Uptown Bonifacio in Taguig City. Each of these projects will offer at least 500,000 square meters of residential space and 200,000 sqm of BPO office space. The developer has also extended its reach to the Visayas with its ongoing township projects such as The Mactan Newtown in Cebu and Iloilo Business Park in Iloilo.
For more than 20 years, the group has emerged as one of the country's leading real estate companies, completing more than 240 residential and office buildings with a total floor area of about six million sqm.
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(AP) - The man who says he tricked Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o into falling for a fake woman he created online claims the hoax had "everything to do" with escaping from real life because he had been molested as a child.
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo spoke publicly for the first time in an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw for the "Dr. Phil Show," the second part of which aired Friday.
The 22-year-old Tuiasosopo told McGraw he was repeatedly molested, beginning at age 12, by someone who was close to his father, a church pastor and youth minister.
"I felt that I couldn't do things, accomplish things, pursue things, live out as Ronaiah," Tuiasosopo said. "And I felt the need to create this. It has everything to do with what I went through as a child."
Tuiasosopo did not identify his alleged attacker by name and did not say whether he had told police about his claim.
His father, Titus Tuiasosopo, said it was difficult to hear the details of the abuse his son suffered.
"When he told me the location, the time, I could go back and vividly remember those trips, the times that these guys came over," he said. "That part, right there, was kind of gut wrenching for me."
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo said he built the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman who Te'o said he fell in love with despite never meeting in person. Tuiasosopo then killed off the character last September.
He said creating Kekua _ who met Te'o online during the player's freshman year at Notre Dame _ allowed him to live in an alternate reality, and helped validate that he was a good person.
"When I looked at Lennay through Manti's eyes, I got a glimpse of who I was as far as my heart," said Tuisasosopo, who told McGraw that he fell in love with Te'o.
When Deadspin.com exposed the hoax in a story on Jan. 16, the report raised questions about whether Te'o was in on it. But Te'o denied he was involved and Tuiasosopo also said the All-American had nothing to do with the scam.
Kekua "died" the same day in September that Te'o's real grandmother passed away, and the story of the linebacker playing through the double tragedy became an often-told tale as Notre Dame went 12-0 last season and earned a spot in the BCS championship. Te'o failed at the time to make clear that he had only known Kekua online and through phone calls, which caused confusion later.
Te'o won seven national awards for his play and was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy. A couple of days before that award was presented, the linebacker had a call from the Kekua character saying she was alive.
Te'o, who has said he was deeply confused by that conversation, ultimately told his parents and coaches about the situation. Notre Dame said an investigation of Te'o's claims backed up his story and pointed to Tuiasosopo as the person behind the hoax. When asked by Katie Couric in an interview broadcast last week, Te'o said he is not gay.
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In the McGraw interview, Tuiasosopo said he was the voice of Kekua, and provided samples to McGraw and a producer. One of those samples, McGraw said, was compared by three separate laboratories to recorded voice mails sent by Kekua to Te'o. They were a match, he said.
Tuiasosopo apologized to Te'o, Notre Dame, his own family and everyone else affected by the hoax during the interview.
"People say, `Well, does he even have any feeling toward this?'" Tuiasosopo said. "The truth is, I hurt every day from the decisions that I made."
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WORRALL - Edie. July 19th 1984. We had a Mum with a heart of gold, how much we miss her can never be told. Love - Norma, Jim, Paula, Richard, Kristy & Ellis xxx
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And after the death of a 55-year-old Detroit man Wednesday, officials also are advising inspections for furnaces working heavily to keep homes heated during the arctic blast. Carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected in his death, Detroit fire officials said.
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Tour two wonders that put Ningaloo and Shark Bay on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
The Ningaloo Reef-Shark Bay coast is one of few places on Earth where you can visit two World Heritage listed treasures in one short self-drive adventure.
This trail from Perth to Monkey Mia, Coral Bay and Exmouth reveals the natural wonders that put the region on the UNESCO world map – from the biggest fringing reef, to the largest and oldest living fossils on the planet.
Duration: 9 to 11 days
Distance: 3,148 to 3,288 kilometres
Best time: March to November
Total distance: 588 kilometres
Make your journey to the starting point the beginning of your adventure by joining the Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth.
Beginning in the coastal playground of Lancelin, it leads you to one of the most unique landscapes on Earth, the Pinnacles Desert of Nambung National Park, and ends in the windsurfing capital of Geraldton.
From here, you're just one hour and 45 minutes away from the ultimate outback coast playground in Kalbarri National Park.
Take your pick from a wide variety of accommodation options and stay a night or two to cruise, kayak, walk, climb or abseil Kalbarri's 400-million-year-old river gorges.
Or just take in the region's extraordinary beauty, spring wildflowers and rock formations, including the iconic Nature's Window, from the park's lookouts.
Total distance: 375-399 kilometres
The turnoff to Shark Bay World Heritage Area is two and a half hours' drive north of Kalbarri, and just 30 minutes later you'll reach your first stop at Hamelin Pool Stromatolites.
Here, you can get a glimpse of life on Earth over 3,500 million years ago as you gaze in awe at the stromatolites – the largest and oldest living fossils on the planet.
Another hour along Denham-Hamelin Road brings you to Shell Beach – one of the few places in the world where you'll see a beach made entirely of billions of tiny shells, creating a dramatic coastal landscape.
On the last leg to Denham and Monkey Mia, take a short detour to Eagle Bluff for spectacular ocean vistas and birds-eye views of the marine life below, or Peron Homestead for some insights into pastoral life on a working station in the early 1900s.
Stay in Denham or Monkey Mia, ready for a morning with Monkey Mia's famous bottlenose dolphins.
Wild dolphins have visited this shoreline virtually every day since the early 1960s, making it one of the world's top spots for dolphin encounters.
Spend your afternoon meeting more of Shark Bay's marine life – including the world's largest population of dugongs – on a wildlife cruise or kayaking tour.
Or stay on dry land and meet some of the region's 100 species of reptiles and amphibians, and 240 varieties of birds on an Indigenous cultural tour, or a 4WD tour of Francois Peron National Park.
Total distance: 329-469 kilometres
The tropical food bowl of Carnarvon is the southern gateway to World Heritage Listed Ningaloo Reef – the largest and one of the most accessible fringing reefs on Earth.
Stop for lunch to feast on seasonal seafood and tropical fruit flavours fresh from Carnarvon's plantations and farms.
Explore the region's history and heritage with a visit to the Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage and Cultural Centre and Carnarvon Heritage Precinct.
Take a stroll along One Mile Jetty and ride the coffee pot train.
Or take a two-day detour by 4WD to some of the most secluded spots on the Ningaloo coast, where you can step straight off the beaches into the bluest ocean and snorkel with some of the 500 species of fish and 300 varieties of coral that call the reef home.
Drivers are advised to contact Carnarvon Tourist Centre to check road conditions and stock up on water, food and fuel before making this journey.
Take Blowholes Road and stop to witness the powerful force of the ocean swell at the Blowholes, before taking the unsealed to some of Ningaloo's top snorkel trails, swimming beaches, fishing spots and surf breaks at Bluff Barrel, the Tombstones, 3 Mile Camp and Gnaraloo Bay.
Stay a night or two at Quobba Station, Red Bluff, 3 Mile Camp or Gnaraloo.
Options range from camping and basic cabins to glamping in luxury eco tents.
Total distance: 581 kilometres (from Shark Bay) 330 kilometres (from South Ningaloo)
The journey from Shark Bay to the chilled-out seaside town of Coral Bay takes a total of seven hours and 45 minutes – a little less if you're heading from South Ningaloo and travelling back to Blowholes Road to reach the North West Coastal Highway.
Here, in the calm, sheltered waters of the bay, you're just a short snorkel from Ningaloo's coral gardens.
A guided tour on a glass-bottom boat, sea kayak, dive charter or snorkel tour will take you to the outer reef for a swim with the turtles and graceful manta rays.
Whale watching tours also operate between March and July.
Try catching your own dinner on a deep-sea fishing charter, or choose from a small selection of cafes and restaurants and stay a night or two.
Total distance: 152 kilometres
At the northern tip of the Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth is one of the best places in the world for a thrilling swim with the largest fish in the ocean – the whale shark.
They visit Ningaloo Reef every year between March and July, and Exmouth offers a range of tours.
A glass-bottom boat, snorkel or dive tour to the outer reef will also bring you to the year-round playgrounds of dolphins, turtles, dugongs and manta rays.
Two must-dos for divers include Navy Pier – one of Australia's top 10 dive sites – and an overnight trip to the Murion Islands.
There are also big drawcards here for surfers at the reef break on Surfers Beach, and world-class big-game chasing thrills for anglers too.
Choose from a good variety of accommodation options in Exmouth and on the cape.
Total distance: 160 kilometres (return)
Join a guided tour, or pack a picnic and head off early to explore Ningaloo Marine Park and Cape Range National Park at your own pace.
Drive carefully, watching out for kangaroos, emus and lizards, and take your pick from a string of stunning lagoons, white-sand beaches and snorkel trails, including Turquoise Bay.
For a striking contrast, take a wildlife cruise (seasonal) or self-guided bushwalk up the rugged red canyon of Yardie Creek.
Finish your day on the cape with an Indian Ocean sunset and humpback whale spotting (June and November) at Vlamingh Head Lighthouse.
Total distance: 1,268 kilometres
Retrace your tracks back to Perth, or extend your road trip, following the sealed roads east to nature's own adventure world at Karijini National Park, or north to Broome and the Kimberley wilderness.
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by Angelo Muredda Turn Me On, Goddammit opens with a provocation worthy of its title. Our introduction to fifteen-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) finds her on the kitchen floor, masturbating to a phone-sex line (she's a preferred caller and sort-of friend to operator Stig (Per Kjerstad)) while her dog watches with interest. That's some hook, but Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's first dramatic feature after a string of documentaries is at its best when it bypasses this kind of frontal assault and plays to Jacobsen's strengths, namely her delicate touch with nonprofessional actors and sharp distillation of the gender politics of small-town life. While the film nicely delineates its washed-out setting of Skoddeheimen, a remote mountain village in Norway whose welcome sign kids unfailingly raise a middle-finger to on the bus ride home from school, Jacobsen's real boon is to capture a spectrum of teens' sexual attitudes within a hermetically-sealed but still fairly typical environment. While that might make Turn Me On, Goddammit sound like a dry sociological tome, Jacobsen and Bergsholm, in her debut, are adept at making Alma not a blank Norwegian Everygirl but someone who's credibly starting to cultivate her sexual proclivities in a hostile space.


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It's not easy to get anything out of Lions DT Ndamukong Suh, but it seems like he wants to remain with the Lions when his contract is voidable after the 2014 season. Speculation about Suh's desire to remain in Detroit arose when his sister and public relations manager Ngum Suh tweeted what initially looked to be a cryptic post on her brothers desire to stay with the Lions. Thank u Jesus! Only 2.5 more years! #Freedom — Ngum Suh (@Ngum_suh) October 13, 2012 Ngum eventually clarified what she was actually referring to with her tweeting which wasn't her brothers time with the Lions. @yourboymiked Think abt what? Others? I am…In 2.5 yrs I'll help change many students lives. Ur the 1 who can't think past FB #BeAshamed — Ngum Suh (@Ngum_suh) October 14, 2012 4 those of u who don't know Im the other #Suh who played REAL football(soccer)…My tweets r not always abt @ndamukong_suh #TRYNot2BSoStupid — Ngum Suh (@Ngum_suh) October 14, 2012 Ndamukong was eventually asked by Anwar Richardson o...
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The works of García Lorca, internationally recognized as Spain's most prominent lyric poet and dramatist of the twentieth century, are filled with thinly veiled homosexual motifs and themes.
There has always been homosexual involvement in American musical theatre and a homosexual sensibility even in straight musicals, and recently the Broadway musical has welcomed openly homosexual themes and situations.
Best known for his genius in art and architecture, Michelangelo was also an accomplished author of homoerotic poetry.
The African-American gay male literary tradition consists of a substantial body of texts and includes some of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century.
Combining elements of incongruity, theatricality, and exaggeration, camp is a form of humor that helps homosexuals cope with a hostile environment.
Langston Hughes, whose literary legacy is enormous and varied, was closeted, but homosexuality was an important influence on his literary imagination, and many of his poems may be read as gay texts.
James Baldwin, a pioneering figure in twentieth-century literature, wrote sustained and articulate challenges to American racism and mandatory heterosexuality.
Oscar Wilde is important both as an accomplished writer and as a symbolic figure who exemplified a way of being homosexual at a pivotal moment in the emergence of gay consciousness.
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Congratulations to the late Jeanne Manford, the co-founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian and Gays), who has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second highest civilian honor.
The Presidential Citizens Medal, established in 1969, is bestowed by the President of the United States on individuals who have performed exemplary deeds or services for his or her country or fellow citizens. Second in prestige only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the award may be bestowed only on United States citizens and may be awarded posthumously.
As Paul Schindler reports in Gay City News, Jeanne Manford, who died on January 7, 2013, is only the second person to be honored with a Presidential Citizens Medal for gay rights activism.
A 2011 Presidential Citizens Medal was awarded to Janice Langbein, a lesbian who sued a Miami hospital after she and her three young children were denied the right to visit her partner, Lisa Marie Pond, as she lay dying after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2007. (In 2001, Dr. David N. Ho and actress Elizabeth Taylor were awarded Presidential Citizens Medals for their work in AIDS research and prevention.)
In 2009, President Obama recognized gay rights pioneer and martyr Harvey Milk with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest honor.
Jeanne Manford became active on behalf of glbtq rights in 1972 after her late son Morty, a Columbia University student who became an activist after witnessing the Stonewall rebellion in 1969, was beaten during a Gay Activists Alliance demonstration.
She and her husband Jules were outraged by the attack on their son, and Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Post decrying the fact that police officers had stood by and allowed it to happen. In her letter, she said, "I have a homosexual son and I love him."
She was a school teacher and when the story was picked up by the New York Times, her principal asked her to be "more discreet" because parents were complaining. Jeanne Manford staunchly defended her right to speak freely, and the principal demurred.
Both Jeanne and Jules Manford began to reach out to even wider audiences. They and their son were invited to appear on a television show in Boston shortly after the letter to the editor was published. Radio and television stations in other cities sought them out as well, and the Manfords--sometimes with their son, and sometimes by themselves--traveled to venues including New Orleans, Detroit, and Toronto to speak out against discrimination.
In June 1972 Jeanne Manford marched alongside her son in the Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, carrying a sign that read "Parents of Gays: Unite in Support of Our Children."
When young people along the parade route began rushing up to her, kissing her, and imploring her to talk to their parents, she realized the need for a support group for families. The opportunity to start one came a short while later when she mentioned the idea to a fellow panelist--a then-closeted Methodist minister--at a discussion sponsored by the Homosexual Community Counseling Service, and he offered the use of his church for meetings.
Jeanne and Jules Manford called the fledgling group Parents of Gays. Some twenty people attended the first meeting.
"It was very slow at the beginning," recalled Jeanne Manford later, noting that some subsequent meetings drew only three or four people, "but we always felt that if we helped one person, it was worth the effort."
Though the start may have been halting and the scope at first limited, the results of the Manfords' initiative have been enormous: Parents of Gays grew into PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), which, as of 2007, had some 500 chapters and more than 200,000 members and supporters.
Manford's fellow 2012 Medal recipients include former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford, the six women who died defending young children in the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings, pediatrician Terry Brazelton, two military veterans, and activists and professionals working on issues of poverty, Native American youth, veterans' and women's disabilities, and immigration.
A full list of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medalists, with brief biographies, may be found here.
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In the video below, from a 2009 Human Rights Campaign dinner, President Obama tells the story of Jeanne Manford and PFLAG.
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It had a net profit of Rs.531.64 crore during the July-September quarter of the last fiscal.
The half yearly net profit went up by 35 per cent to Rs.1,477.02 crore from Rs.1,093.68 crore during the same period last year, Axis Bank Chairman Adarsh Kishore told the media after the board meeting here.
The bank's net interest income rose to Rs.1,615 crore in the second quarter, compared to Rs.1,150 crore in the same quarter a year ago, a growth of 41 per cent. The bank's advances grew by 36 per cent at Rs.1,10,593 crore as against Rs.81,044 crore in the same quarter a year ago. The bank, ranked 11th in India, held its first board meeting in China within days of obtaining the RBI approval to upgrade its representative office here to branch.
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Peña, who lives in Los Angeles, earned fame after singing at a tribute concert in Houston for slain Tejano star Selena Quintanilla-Perez in 1995. Since then, her poppy Tejano style has garnered a following, and she has released seven albums by herself and with backup group Los Jetz.
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Army paid $16M to deserters, AWOL soldiers, audit finds
An audit shows it paid out $16 million in paychecks over a 2 and ½-year period to soldiers designated as AWOL or as deserters, the second time since 2006 the military has been dinged for the error.
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