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21 Oct 2011
A range of new creative scholarships will be available for outstanding and/or disadvantaged students at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) at the University of Melbourne, from next year, thanks to $3 million dollars of funding support announced today by Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu.
"The VCA and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music have international reputations as leaders in the field of arts education and training," Mr Baillieu said.
These scholarships are part of a commitment to ensure the VCA and MCM maintain and strengthen their
position as leading arts training institutions.
Between 2012 and 2015 'Creative Scholar' opportunities will be made to both Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students, including:
- Undergraduate scholarships for outstanding students, valued at $8,000 each, provided over three years;
- Undergraduate scholarships for disadvantaged students, valued at $9,500 provided over three years;
- Graduate scholarships for outstanding students, valued at $12,000, provided over two years;
- Graduate scholarships for disadvantaged students, valued at $14,500, provided over two years;
- 12 x $30,000 scholarships offered to students and graduates in 2014 to support international experience, travel and work;
- Professional Pathway one-year scholarships, to facilitate a joint collaboration between a not-for-profit arts organisation and graduating student to provide professional experience in their artistic sector;
- Mentoring scholarships to provide for graduates and their mentors to undertake a collaborative project.
The Dean of the Faculty of the VCA and Music, Professor Barry Conyngham, said it was important that the best and most worthy students were aware of the number and quantum of scholarships that are on offer, and are encouraged to apply.
"This is about assisting a new generation of talented students to achieve their full potential by studying at the VCA and MCM.
"It puts a whole new era of accessibility and commitment into the VCA and MCM, by supporting outstanding and/or disadvantaged students across all the disciplines we have to offer; Visual Art, Dance, Theatre, Classical and Contemporary Music, Music Theatre, Film and Television and Production."
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People all around Jared Lee Loughner - friends, teachers, classmates, co-workers, even fellow posters in online chat forums - saw signs that something was wrong.
From his late teens into his early 20s, Loughner grew stranger and stranger, shouting about his constitutional rights, getting fired from jobs and kicked out of classes, and posting nonsensical messages online.
Prosecutors allege he opened fire at U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Congress on Your Corner event last Saturday, killing six people and wounding Giffords and 12 others.
On Friday, Pima Community College released a video Loughner made in September that, for the first time since Saturday, gives a window into Loughner's world narrated by the suspect himself.
In the video, Loughner walks around the college's Northwest campus after dark, complaining about a grade to an apparent stranger and saying, "We're examining the torture of students."
"This is my genocide school," he says. "This is Pima Community College, one of the biggest scams in America. The students are so illiterate that it affects their daily lives."
The video, made Sept. 23 and viewed by the campus police chief on Sept. 29, came on top of five contacts with campus police for disturbing the library and his classes.
It led to his suspension by the school that day, and a later demand by the college that he receive a mental evaluation gauging whether he's a threat.
Until Saturday, it was one of the lowest points in the northwest-side youth's years-long descent into apparent madness. Interviews, public records and Internet postings trace the arc of a native Tucsonan's life until the disaster on Saturday.
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Mental illness is in Loughner's family tree, said Judy Wackt, a first cousin to Loughner's mother, Amy.
"There's a history in the family of what they used to call manic depression, which I guess they now call bipolar disorder," said Wackt, who lives in Texas. "My mother battled depression. One of her sisters had extreme bouts. She'd be OK, then she'd dissolve over time. Wouldn't leave the house. Wouldn't bathe. Wouldn't interact with her husband or children."
When Loughner was born in 1988, his mother had worked in Pima County parks for a year. His father, Randy, was not regularly employed but was known to work on cars and around the house.
Loughner seemed like a regular kid in his early years, when he attended Thornydale Elementary School, Tortolita Middle School and Mountain View High School.
"We'd stay at his house, play video games," said Tucsonan Joe Iosue, who knew him from second grade at Thornydale Elementary School through their years at Tortolita Middle School. "He was a normal kid - never angry."
The two would play wrestling games on PlayStation and build bicycle jumps to fly off.
Loughner's passion was music. He started on the saxophone around the fifth grade. By late middle school, he was a serious jazz buff, with John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker on his iPod.
In junior high and high school, Zach Millard took band class with Loughner, by then a skilled saxophone player. In high school, Loughner acted strange, Millard said.
"He would randomly go off on the teacher, being very rude and disruptive," Millard said via Facebook. "He would almost be obsessed with how the government was being ran. He didn't like it and would also try to start heated arguments with anyone who would listen."
Loughner dropped out of high school after junior year but got his diploma from an alternative school. He tried to enlist in the Army in 2008 but was rejected, said First Sgt. Brian Homme, who oversees Army recruiting in Tucson. He was sent to Phoenix to take a test and physical, but "he was found to be unqualified," Homme said.
Shaky job, school history
From his high school years forward, Loughner worked in a series of service jobs at restaurants and stores. In 2006, he spent three months working at a Peter Piper Pizza near his home.
He worked in a Red Robin restaurant at Tucson Mall from November 2006 to February 2008.
All the while he steadily took classes at Pima Community College, courses ranging from American Sign Language to pilates, and courses that eventually brought him into trouble with authority.
Loughner acted so odd in a Pima Community College math class last summer that fellow student Lynda Sorenson took to sitting by the door so she could flee quickly if Loughner exploded.
"We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me," Sorenson wrote in an e-mail to a friend on June 14. "He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, 'Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird.' "
Loughner seemed OK at first, said Ben McGahee, the elementary algebra instructor who taught the class. He said that he had left a job at a fast-food restaurant and wanted to study computer networking, said McGahee, 28.
"Once we started doing some math on the board, he started asking me questions," McGahee said. "He said, 'If you can learn math, can you unlearn math?' "
Bizarre internet posts
Loughner's online accounts contain some political comments but are dominated by bizarre discussions of his desire to establish a new currency and his disdain for what he considered the public's low literacy rates. He also wrote threatening and despairing messages.
"WOW! I'm glad i didn't kill myself. I'll see you on National T.v.! This is foreshadow .... why doesn't anyone talk to me?.." he posted on MySpace Dec. 14.
On Dec. 13, he wrote: "I don't feel good: I'm ready to kill a police officer! I can say it."
In a posting on YouTube, Loughner wrote repeatedly about a new currency.
"I'm thinking of creating a new currency," he wrote. "Therefore, I'm thinking of a design for my new coins size, shape, color, material, and image to start a new money system."
He also wrote repeatedly about literacy. In a message on YouTube, Loughner wrote: "The majority of people, who reside in District-8 are illiterate - hilarious. I don't control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure."
In a message posted on his MySpace account, titled "Goodbye friends," Loughner said: "Dear friends...please don't be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven't talked to one person who is literate." It was unclear when it was posted.
In a MySpace profile, Loughner said "My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college."
Conscious dreaming is the process of trying to manipulate your dreams.
On the site Above Top Secret, a poster believed to be Loughner left dozens of posts with bizarre theories about U.S. currency, the Constitution and grammar. Finally, another regular on the site wrote back: "I think you're frankly schizophrenic, and no that's not an amateur opinion and not intended as an uninformed or insulting remark. I really do care. Seek help before you hurt yourself or others or start taking your medications again, please."
Loughner, known on the site as "erad3," responded, "Thank you for the concern."
Run-ins with authorities
Loughner has had at least two minor run-ins with police, court records show.
In October 2007, Loughner was cited by the Pima County Sheriff's Department for possession of drug paraphernalia - a small amount of marijuana and a pipe. The charge was dismissed in November 2007 when he completed a diversion program.
One year later, in October 2008, Loughner faced a "local charge" in Marana Municipal Court for defacing a stop sign. That charge was also dismissed after the completion of a diversion program in March 2009.
He had trouble getting and keeping a job. He was fired or walked off a string of retail and restaurant jobs. He sought help getting a job several times last year at a Pima County employment center, but the last visit turned into a familiar fiasco: He was ejected as he protested his constitutional rights.
On Sept. 29, Loughner made the last of at least four visits to the Pima County OneStop center at 340 N. Commerce Park Loop, just west of downtown Tucson. He came in carrying a video camera and recorded the staff in the office, according to an account written by a co-director of the center and obtained through a public-records request.
"He had a video camera with him and was taking pictures in the building," Mary Brodesky wrote to her supervisors. "Front desk staff asked him to turn off camera and he refused. When job developer went up front to greet him, he was using the camera. Job developer asked him to turn it off, and Mr. Loughner refused."
"He pulled a crumpled copy of the Constitution out of his pocket and waved it at me, saying it was his right. I attempted to calm him down but eventually had to ask him to leave the building, which he did."
Father yelled at neighbors
At the time of his arrest Loughner lived with his parents, Randy and Amy Loughner, on North Soledad Avenue on the northwest side. He had lived there his whole life.
Neighbors say Randy Loughner didn't have a paid job over the years, and that he seemed to be the primary child-rearer. Property records show he has lived there since 1977. He kept mainly to himself, neighbors say, and when he did interact with others, the results were often bad: He had tiffs about incursions onto his property; he yelled at people. Before long, some neighbors were telling their children to steer clear of the Loughner place.
The feeling was mutual: Some years back, Loughner surrounded his house with a wall that blocked views of his side porch.
In 1986, Loughner married Amy Totman, who neighbors say was quiet but more pleasant and approachable than her husband. Amy Loughner is the manager at Agua Caliente Park on the Tucson's northeast side, making $53,452 a year, said Gwyn Hatcher, Pima County's human-resources director.
Jason Johnson, who has been staying with his father across the street for two or three months, said he tried to greet both Randy and Jared Loughner at different times. Both turned and walked away without saying anything, Johnson said.
When he spoke to Jared Loughner, "it was like he wasn't home," Johnson said. "The lights were on, but nobody was in there."
Loughner's parents showed up at the doorstep of Roxanne and George Osler IV's house in 2008 looking for their son, who had left home about a week before and had broken off contact, the Oslers said. The Oslers' son, Zach Osler, told them the name of the local hotel where their son was staying, and Jared moved back in, Zach's father said.
Loughner "focused all his energy into understanding the mystery of man's existence on Earth," George Osler said. "He was desperately trying to escape from all the chaos and suffering in his world."
Loughner's favorite writer was Philip K. Dick, whose science-fiction tales traveled a mystical path in which omnipotent governments and businesses were the bad guys and the average man was often lost in an identity-shattering swirl of paranoia, schizophrenia and questions about whether the universe and the individual were real or part of some vast conspiracy.
Two years ago, Loughner texted his old friend Zach Osler: "I don't want to be your friend anymore."
"What Jared did was wrong," said Roxanne Osler, Zach's mother. "But … I feel bad for the kid. … I wish people would have taken a better notice of him and gotten him help."
Contributors: The Washington Post and Star reporters Carol Ann Alaimo, Brady McCombs, Alex Dalenberg, Fernanda Echavarri, Patrick Finley, Ernesto Portillo Jr., Kori Rumore and Sarah Trotto.

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Analysts expect the Alibaba IPO to raise more than $20 billion, which would make the deal the largest in history, and investors large and small are clamoring to get in on this offering.
Which means if you are, too, you'd better do your homework.
One of the best things to do to bone up on your Alibaba intel is to dive into the Alibaba IPO prospectus — for foreign companies such as Alibaba, this is called the F-1, while it's called the S-1 for domestic operators.
The Alibaba F-1 is more than 350 pages long. It's got technical and legal jargon. It's boring.
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Alibaba IPO Factor #1: The Business (Pages 1 to 9)
"The Business" is the first section I go to when looking at a prospectus, and I read the whole thing. It's going to be shed in a positive light, but it still does provide a good overview of the company and its business model.
In the case of the Alibaba IPO prospectus, the focus is broad:
"Our mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere."
To this end, Alibaba has built various online and mobile marketplaces like Taobao Marketplace (China's largest online shopping destination), Tmall (China's largest third-party platform for brands and retailers) and Juhuasuan (China's most popular group buying marketplace by its monthly active users). Alibaba has also expanded into adjacent businesses like cloud computing and online payments (Alipay).
The Alibaba IPO prospectus also goes into detail on the market opportunity, which is massive. According to a report from nonprofit research organization CNNIC, China had 302 million online shoppers compared to a total Internet population of 618 million. However, mobile is likely to be the main way these users will start to use e-commerce, so Alibaba has been pumping up its mobile efforts, such as the recent purchase of UCWeb as well as investments in Weibo (WB) and messaging service TangoMe.
Finally, the Alibaba IPO prospectus does a good job in arguing why the company has a strong moat — that is, with its "network effects." This is a powerful aspect of a successful online marketplace since the more buyers and sellers there are, the more valuable it becomes. It's why companies like eBay (EBAY) have been dominant for such a long period of time.
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President: Yayi Boni (2006)
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Land area: 42,710 sq mi (110,619 sq km); total area: 43,483 sq mi (112,620 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 10,160,556 (growth rate: 2.81%); birth rate: 36.51/1000; infant mortality rate: 57.09/1000; life expectancy: 61.07
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The Abomey kingdom of the Dahomey, or Fon, peoples was established in 1625. A rich cultural life flourished, and Dahomey's wooden masks, bronze statues, tapestries, and pottery are world renowned. One of the smallest and most densely populated regions in Africa, Dahomey was annexed by the French in 1893 and incorporated into French West Africa in 1904. It became an autonomous republic within the French Community in 1958, and on Aug. 1, 1960, Dahomey was granted its independence within the Community.
Gen. Christophe Soglo deposed the first president, Hubert Maga, in an army coup in 1963. He dismissed the civilian government in 1965, proclaiming himself chief of state. A group of young army officers seized power in Dec. 1967, deposing Soglo. In Dec. 1969, Benin had its fifth coup of the decade, with the army again taking power. In May 1970, a three-man presidential commission with a six-year term was created to take over the government. In May 1972, yet another army coup ousted the triumvirate and installed Lt. Col. Mathieu Kérékou as president. Between 1974 and 1989 Dahomey embraced socialism, and changed its name to the People's Republic of Benin. The name Benin commemorates an African kingdom that flourished from the 15th to the 17th century in what is now southwest Nigeria. In 1990, Benin abandoned Marxist ideology, began moving toward multiparty democracy, and changed its name again, to the Republic of Benin.
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Wayne. Wayne Hurlbert. I think of him often, now. Now that... he's gone. Why is that? Why did I not think of him more often, before he was gone? It's just how we humans are.
Not always thinking of him does not mean he was unimportant to me. Wayne was superbly important. In so many little ways - he was a talented blogger; he was a great friend; he was a marvelous story-teller; and he was on the leading edge of what we call social media today. Wayne was among the very first friends I made, all those years ago, when I started Lipsticking. And, he made me feel important - just by being himself.
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An instructor of record may arrange for a videographer from the OIT to record a daytime class at no charge. Use this as an opportunity for self-examination, a way to document student presentations, or an addition to your teaching portfolio.
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I often wonder if it is right for me, as an adult, to review a novel intended for children. The adult brain can be too demanding, or too scrutinizing of a novel that is simply meant to be fun, which is truly all a young reader would care about.
So I try to remind myself when I review a book meant for middle-schoolers, that I shouldn't concern myself so much with the plot, but that it should be — above all else — entertaining.
While Lissa Evans' debut novel, "Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms," claims to be a "Willy Wonka-like adventure of a lifetime," about a magician's secret workshop full of dazzling theatrical illusions, fantastic machines and even some possible real-life magic, the only thing entertaining about this story is its misleading title.
Stuart Horten, a boy of smaller height than most 10-year-olds (much to his chagrin), has just moved into a quiet town where his great-uncle Tony used to reside and perform his magic acts.
When Stuart finds a message left behind by his great-uncle, it is the beginning of a trail of clues that Stuart begins to discover all over town, pointing the way toward a hidden place where Tony left behind all of his greatest mechanisms of magic, including the one that led to his disappearance years ago.
But Stuart's clue hunt catches the attention of a few unwanted snoops, such as the next-door neighbor triplets April, May and June, and a business woman with a bumbling protégé, who want more than anything to get their hands on Tony's most prized magical secrets.
If Stuart can find his great-uncle's workshop, it will belong to him; if it falls into the wrong hands, whatever magic the mechanisms could hold may never be found again.
This promises everything a young reader would enjoy: a clue-gathering mystery, a determined and bold main character, quirky villains, and truly magical possibilities.
Unfortunately, what the story is, is boring. There seems to be little motivation for Stuart to find the workshop other than he has nothing better to do. Perhaps it is to learn more about his uncle, but it is never stated that Stuart is interested in his family history or has any fascination with magic (he, in fact, states that he does not believe in magic).
Many of the characters are superfluous, particularly May and June, since April is the only triplet who is given any character development and is the only one involved in Stuart's quest.
But most disappointingly, the villains are lackluster, not threatening or at least humorous — and it is commonly the villain that makes or breaks a good children's story.
The ingenuity and courage of our hero can only be tested by a truly challenging adversary.
As for the hoping this would be as whimsically bizarre as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," what made Willy Wonka's factory so memorable was the adventure. Charlie didn't spend the entire book looking for clues in his ordinary town, trying to find the factory.
If, as an adult, I thought the story dragged and saved its only good moments for the very end, how are middle school readers going to have the patience to slog through?
In a literary market that has an onslaught of stories about young wizards where magic is prevalent and impossible obstacles are constant, treasure-hunt quests that lead young adventurers around the world, battles to the death between teenaged heroes and the most wicked, world-conquering villains imaginable, "Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms" unfortunately comes up — much like its main character — just a little too short.
Alison Reeger Cook is a Gainesville resident whose Off the Shelves book review appears every other week in Sunday Life. Know of a good book to review? Email her to tell her about it. Her column appears biweekly and on gainesvilletimes.com/life


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Tom's got a problem getting his tomatoes and peppers to mature to red. Well Tom, after these fruits reach what we call the mature green stage, it can be up to 2 weeks of 70 to 80 degree weather before they will finish ripening to red. Prune off young flowers and fruits to promote faster maturing of existing fruits. Peppers are, of course, edible once they reach a full-sized green stage, but are sweeter if allowed to mature to red. Sometimes if you add too much nitrogen fertilizer, you'll get lots of foliage, but your fruits will be late in coming. So be patient and they will turn red.
Nancy is wondering what to do this fall with her Endless Summer hydrangea. It's simple, very little. Endless Summer is a blue hydrangea that flowers on old and new wood. Don't cut it back to the ground or you'll lose some of the flowers for next summer. Remove the foliage and dead flowers this fall and add a layer of compost. If you want bluer flowers next year, add some aluminum sulfate too.
Ruth has a lot of white dust on her squash leaves. Well Ruth, it's probably powdery mildew disease. During warm days and cool nights, this disease attacks phlox, squash, melons, lilacs and a host of other plants. If the squash leaves are covered in white powder, it's probably too late to do anything this year. Next year make sure you space your plants well to promote good air flow, keep the plants healthy, and spray Serenade organic fungicide on the leaves at first signs of the disease.
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Introducing… Kill For Eden.
Kill for Eden are London-based purveyors of classic hard rock, radio ready riffs and powerful female vocals. Their music has been championed by XFM (presently Radio X) and Kerrang!, and seen the band likened to Skunk Anansie, Halestrom, The Cult and Garbage. The quartet have released two EPs and a self-titled album, that boasted "blistering riffs, hook-laden
choruses, great vocals and a strong selection of tunes" (Fireworks Magazine). Their upcoming second studio album, Petty Crimes, is released in early 2017. Lead single, Love You So is out November 25th 2016. The iTunes pre-order link is


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1The Grandma Drummer (63)
2Gym Junkie Grandma (90)
With aqua classes every other day and ballroom dancing in between, she has an astonishing fitness routine. She said exercise came as naturally to her as knitting - but that's not something she has a lot of time for. When she's not at the gym, she has her line dancing sessions, plus her walking group meets every Wednesday. (Source)
3Tattooed Grandma (101)
At age 99, Rosenthal decided to get her first tattoo, a tiny blue butterfly about the size of a dime. Gallo-Kohlas remembers Rosenthal looking at the finished tattoo and proclaiming that it was too small. At 100, Rosenthal tried again, this time much bigger and on the other leg. The silver-dollar-sized flower was better, but it required her to lift her pant leg to show it off. Next time, she decided, she'd get one on her arm. (Via)
4A Truck Pulling Grandma (73)
5Highest Ranked Judoka (99)
When Fukuda was 21, she was invited by judo's founder, Jigoro Kano, to join the newly formed women's division of the Kodokan – the home of Judo. Fukuda taught judo to women and opened her own dojo.
Kuduka died on February 9, 2013 in San Francisco at the age of 99. She was still coaching just a few weeks until her death.
6Parachuter Grandma (93)
Pat, from Solihull, West Midlands, has had a lifetime of daring exploits. She did a charity abseil 13 years ago with her grandson. The stunt left him in a coma for eight days after he fell 50 feet, head-first, to the ground. But when he recovered, the pair did another abseil. (Source)
7Yoga Instructor Grandma (83)
8The High School Graduate Grandma (98)
She had worked for 36 years as an accountant and enjoyed a long and happy marriage. She has a son and three grandkids, maintains her own top-floor apartment on Nob Hill, and still goes out on the town with her friends for old-fashioneds and margaritas.
Wearing a white cap and gown and carrying a rose just like the rest of the girls, Mrs. Belasco finally graduated from Galileo High School -- 80 years later. (Source | Via)
9Wolf Killer Grandma (56)
Aishat Maksudova said she was tending to her cattle and flock of sheep when the wolf attacked in the village of Novo Biryuzyak, Dagestan. The 56-year-old managed to save the calf, but the wolf then turned its attention to her, clamping its jaws onto her hand.
Speaking from the hospital with her hand bandaged, Mrs. Maksudova said she was "not even frightened" during the wolf attack. The brave grandma explained how she wanted to throttle the wolf to death but was forced to reach for her axe when she could not pry the animal's jaws open. (Source)
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The Australian Education Union has called on the federal government to fund the Gonski school plan for the full six years envisaged by Labor.
In a pre-budget submission to be released on Thursday, the union, representing teachers and other educators, says the first four years of the Gonski plan – which the government has committed to fund – will deliver virtually no extra money per student in real terms.
Analysis by academic and former education official
AEU federal president
"Up to 20 per cent of public schools in states that signed Gonski agreements will still be operating without an appropriate level of resources in 2017."
The government has yet to announce its long-term funding plans for school education. In last year's election campaign Prime Minister
But he committed to matching Labor only for the first four years of the plan based on the school review led by businessman David Gonski, omitting the fifth and sixth years which have significant funding increases projected.
Dr McMorrow said in his report the Gonski funding increases needed to be delivered beyond 2016-17 in order to "target the quality and equity standards" identified by the Gonski review.
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One of the nation's largest banks has announced a new round of layoffs.
The mortgage lending unit of Citigroup (C) will shed about 1,000 workers, roughly 8% of the unit's total workforce. Most of the lost jobs will come from Citigroup's mortgage operations in Las Vegas, though about 100 jobs will be lost at its Irving, Texas, offices, Reuters notes.
Citigroup's move comes as mortgage interest rates rise, reducing applications for new loans. Fewer mortgage defaults and delinquencies are driving 200 of the job cuts, while the remaining 800 lost positions are drawn from the bank's mortgage underwriting, fulfillment and sales staff.
While Citigroup is the third largest U.S. bank, it is only the sixth largest mortgage lender in the country, with just 3.9% of the national mortgage loan market.
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NEPA Style, Volume 1
A Book of Photographs by Jacqueline M. Evans
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These photographs are a collection of images taken near my home, in Northeastern Pennsylvania, over the past year. Some are reminiscent of the hard working immigrants who mined coal, labored in factories and worked the land as farmers. My work is a process of my surroundings and finding beauty in the decay. I'm proud to be from NEPA and hope you enjoy these photos as much as I've loved capturing them.
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Jacqueline is the owner and founder of Art Street Design Studio, a graphic and web site design firm. She has worked for various corporations before starting Art Street, and her work has been published globally.
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Kildare Youth Theatre Irish Premieres:
31 Mar - 3 Apr 2003
Totally Over You by Mark Ravenhill and Purple, by Jon Fosse
: 31 March - 3 April : Riverbank, 8pm : Tickets €10 /
After months of work the members of KYT are proud to present
the Irish premieres of two new plays written especially for
youth theatres. These plays were commissioned by the Royal
National Theatre of Great Britain for its Shell International
Connections Festival of Youth Theatre, and as such, have not
been performed anywhere in the world until this month. KYT
will showcase them here before travelling to the Irish leg
of the festival held in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in April.
Totally Over You by Mark Ravenhill
Inspired by Molière's Les Précieuses Ridicules,
Mark Ravenhill's ironic new play examines the world of instant
celebrity, branding and illusion in an age of Big Brother
and Pop Rivals. It is a love story for anyone who's ever dreamt
of becoming a pop star, told a few lies and been dumped. This
is a comic gem from one of the most talented and controversial
writers of his generation. In Totally Over You, Ravenhill
spotlights some of the most challenging issues facing young
people today. It is directed by Peter Hussey, who also directed
the Irish premiere of Ravenhill's brilliant Wildean farce,
Handbag, for Crooked House in 1999.
Purple by Jon Fosse
In a cold, dank underground room underneath an old factory
a boy shows a girl where he and his band rehearse. The boyfriend
of the girl appears - the drummer - and there's immediate
tension in the air. Purple is a mood-piece that explores the
intriguing relationships between a tightly knit group of teenage
boys and one girl. Not only is this an Irish premiere but
it is also the first time that Finnish writer Jon Fosse has
had his work produced in Ireland. Purple is directed by Darren
Donohue and Yvonne Ó Hara, both of whom directed KYT's
hit show A Midsummer Night's Dream in May 2002.
Both productions are designed by Ciarán Aspell.
KYT perform Totally Over You in London's
KYT opened the Shell Connections Festival last Tuesday with
Totally Over You. The production was excellently received
by both critics and audience.
Kildare Youth Theatre returned from London this week having
been selected to perform Mark Ravenhill's Totally Over
Youin the Cottesloe auditorium of London's Royal National
Theatre. The young company opened the Shell Connections 10
day festival of selected youth theatres with their wonderful
production of Ravenhill's specially commissioned play for
Selections from Reviews
"Forget the rent boys and crack dealers – in
Mark Ravenhill's latest play the focus is firmly on
the superficial appeal of celebrity, in a world where teens
can dream either of being whirled to fame by Pop Idol or of
breaking down on the Jerry Springer Show.
Here music is not the food of love unless garnished with promoters,
screaming fans, movie deals and international tours –
and if a boy can't display the photogenic cheekbones
of Brad Pitt or the publicity muscle of Robbie Williams, then
he will never get the girl.
This, at least, is the premise of Ravenhill's Totally
Over You, one of 10 new plays commissioned for the National
Theatre's Shell Connections season, which targets secondary
schools and youth theatre groups.
[…] Ravenhill's play is based on Les Précieuses
Ridicules, and was performed in a sparky, streetwise production
by the Kildare Youth Theatre, complete with a satirically
bland boyband.
If Totally Over You has a weakness, it is that a plot where
four girls dump four boys in order to date celebrities can
lead to over-repetitive observations on a world view fired
by Heat magazine. Despite this, director Peter Hussey has
coaxed winningly comic performances from a frequently entertaining
script about the hormone-fuelled follies of the age. Kristina
Peacocke as the calculating Kitty and Keith Burke as the boyfriend
who heads a fake boyband to win her back lead a spunky, talented
cast that differentiates with humorous acuity between school
goers who are fashion victims and those who are merely victims.
[…] It displays both the energy and diversity necessary
for theatre to enjoy a healthy future."
- Rachel Halliburton, The Evening Standard, 16 July.
Four Stars****
"The National Theatre's new Shell Connections programme
has begun on a high. Ten of our leading younger playwrights
(including sarah Daniels, David Farr, Mark Ravenhill, Philip
Ridley) have been commissioned to write shortish plays to
be performed by youth groups; 165 schools or youth groups
across Britain and the world are involved; and now the cream
of the results is being presented across seven double-bills
(July 15 - 22) at the Cottesloe Theatre.
[…] Superaltives for the play after the interval: Kildare
Youth Theatre's enchantingly funny production of Mark Ravenhill's
Totally Over You ...This is the lightest, most endearing,
most hilarious, and most flawless play I've ever seen from
him. ... And oh every detail is so funny."
- Alastair Macaulay, The Financial Times 17th July.
Three Stars ***
[Ravenhill's] play is set in any place where fame is the spur.
His four schoolgirls long for celebrity, for their faces to
be everywhere - the Coke tin, on the mouse pad. How to achieve
this is a minor problem, and feminism seems to have made little
headway in their minds if they intend to rely on dating celebrated
men. First, however, they must dump their zitty boyfriends,
and Ravenhill wittily starts off with four neatly varied rejection
scenes. The boys seek revenge and the apparently dimmest among
them (nice sense of the absurd from Ross Mac Mahon) comes
up with a scheme that involves the local drama class: the
four dumped boys will pretend to be a boyband, too cool, too
famous, to bother with local girls.
There is a Molière play at the back of all of this,
Les Précieuses Ridicules, but Ravenhill's update
is clever - and funny at least until after the moment when
the foursome perform. The band name they invent for themselves
is Awesome, and the just understated parody of boyband steps,
shades and silly little dances (director: Peter Hussey) is
as neat as the name, send-ups that edge over the boundary
into the genuine.
Sorting out the consequences takes nearly everything back
to square one, but perhaps Kitty – the girl's
leader – has learnt to look for the substance not the
shimmer. On the other hand, Kristina Peacocke's lofty
distain in the early scenes is so convincingly contemptuous
of the uncool, I would be prepared to bet she would eventually
reject Keith Burke's engagingly dismayed Jake a second
time. Fame may be the spur but the longing for it is a goad
that never gives up. A very Ravenhill point.
- Jeremy Kingston, The Times, 18 July.
Three Stars *** "[…] Mark Ravenhill's 21st
century teenage revenge drama puts laughs above gore, and
will probably be revived more then some of his famous plays,
such as Shopping and F***ing. That is only right, because
it has been specially commissioned along with nine other plays
for performance by schools and youth theatre groups as part
of the Shell Connections season.
This National Theatre performance came courtesy of Ireland's
Kildare Youth Theatre, who performed it with evident enjoyment.
It might be slight and deliberately light in tone, but it
has plenty to say about a culture where our dreams are lies.
And in the process it celebrates the transforming power of
- Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 17 July.
Kitty – Kristina Peacocke
Jake – Keith Burke
Rochelle – Aoife Whelan
Hannah – Gillian Harrington-Lynch
Sinita – Deirdre O' Donnell
Dan – Neil Connolly
Tyson – Joseph O' Malley
Framji – Ian Hollinshead
Victor – Ross Mac Mahon
Letitia – Alice Cunningham
Donna – Orla Tinsley
Rachel –Sarah O' Farrell
Indu – Emily Mc Cann
Rubin – Declan Armstrong
Michael – Eoin Barnes
Drama class – Joanne Browne
Catriona Curran
Sean Reid
Sophie Longwill
Terry Phipps
Director – Peter Hussey
Set & Lighting Design – Ciarán Aspell
Sound – Peter Hussey
Stage Manager (KYT) – Eric Higgins
Group Leaders – Darren Donohue, Yvonne O' Hara,
Alison Hollinshead, and Deborah Mc Cann


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When lawsuits are resolved out of court, what determines the settlement price? This article uses a laboratory simulation and path analysis to estimate the relative importance of measurable variables in determining who wins the battle for the cooperative surplus. In the simulated negotiation conditions, seven variables explained more than half of the variation in settlement outcomes achieved by participants, with negotiators' predictions of their opponent's reservation prices the most important, followed by negotiator gender and amount of first offer. Although the specific context of this article is settlement, the insights generated are applicable to any two-party, distributive negotiation. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.
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I took off work on Friday, September 10, to have a 3-day weekend with my wife visiting a research center in Virginia Beach. After consulting Virginia's green lodging Web site, my wife and I jotted down nearly a dozen participating hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts not far from the research center. We checked rates and availability and were surprised to find many of the hotels with no vacancies. Little did we know that Virginia Beach was observing September 11th with a parade, and a lot of people were in town. Fortunately, the one place both my wife and I liked had availability and we made reservations for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
The hotel where we stayed is a five-story, motel-type inn, with the room door opening to an outside walkway on each floor. When I entered the room, I checked all of the light fixtures (yes, I'm odd in that way). Incandescent light bulbs were in all the sockets. However, when I flushed the toilet, I heard this "whoosh" and knew instantly that the flushing action was being assisted by air pressure, reducing considerably the amount of water being used. Raising the toilet tank cover confirmed this: there were two air tanks inside.
An imposing statue of King Neptune stands guard on the Virginia Beach boardwalk, as if saying to visitors and local residents alike that they WILL conserve water—the precious natural resource he protects—or incur his wrath.
I spoke to Brian, the property manager, the next morning. He said that in addition to the water-conserving toilets, all rooms had water-conserving showerheads and sink aerators. The inn purchases paper products made from recycled paper, he asserted. Sure enough, "From 100% recycled paper" was proudly printed on the tissue box and toilet paper wrapper in our room. Brian admitted that they weren't totally green, but were making efforts to improve. I suggested looking into more environmentally friendly alternatives to the Styrofoam cups offered in the reception area.
I mentioned that our room had only incandescent light bulbs. He immediately pulled out a box of compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs from behind the counter, and explained that they had already started to convert interior lighting to CFLs. Outside each inn door I noticed were four-prong integral (not the screw-in type) CFLs. Since they don't have conventional sockets, these integral types can only accept CFL replacement bulbs, not incandescents. This ensures that someone later will not replace them with incandescent bulbs after they burn out, and I would think that they are also less likely to be stolen. Brian added that they are looking at improving the outdoor lighting further by adding photo sensors.
Brian explained that they bought 26 new efficient heat pumps 2 years ago, and 13 new ones this year.
The hotel offers a linen reuse program to its travelers with Save the Planet doorknob signs. We opted to get clean wash cloths each day, but reuse the sheets and towels.
Unlike fancy hotels with large glamorous reception areas, convention and meeting rooms, and other amenities where you can see energy waste all around, this was a cozy motel that didn't have large energy guzzling items to begin with. Moreover, they were making efforts to cut down further on their environmental footprint.
There are plenty of other lodging facilities in Virginia Beach participating in the Virginia Green Lodging program, from small bed and breakfasts, to large, luxurious chain hotels. Some may ask the question: Does going green mean spending a lot of green? It certainly doesn't have to. Our total lodging bill for three nights over a long weekend in September was very reasonable.
My wife and I enjoyed the ocean and beach while we were there and want to return. I want to go back to the research center as well. We were happy to be able to stay in green lodging and learn more about their efforts to save energy.
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FX has canceled the Warren Leight boxing drama, Lights Out. I enjoyed the series, but the ratings were anemic, pulling a 0.3 national adults 18-49 rating in its most-recent two outings. This comes on the heels of FX's Terriers which was similarly critically well received, and similarly very low-rated and canceled after its first season.
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The film-maker has said he did not receive adequate legal representation in April 2006 when quizzed in relation to a Hollywood wiretapping case.
The 56-year-old's lawyer said he "should never have been charged with a criminal offence".
Mr McTiernan must return to court on 24 September to hear a judge's ruling on the withdrawal of his plea.
Breaching privacy
When he entered his plea of guilty last year, the film director told a judge that he had denied knowing about Anthony Pellicano's alleged wiretapping activities.
But he then said he had actually used him to wiretap Charles Roven, who he worked with on the film Rollerball.
Mr Pellicano faces up to 20 years in jail for allegedly obtaining the private records of high-profile figures in Hollywood.
He is accused of breaching the privacy of US stars Sylvester Stallone, Keith Carradine and Garry Shandling among others.
He has denied 111 counts of bugging telephones and bribing police officers in order to obtain information about celebrities and other people.
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iMentor Madness Kickoff - An SEC-Big 10 NYC Alumni Competition for Mentors
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
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Event Details
Join alumni from the Big Ten and SEC for cocktails and competition at the iMentor Madness Kickoff Party on Tuesday, March 26 at the PS450 lounge. New York City alumni chapters from schools in the Big Ten and SEC have partnered with iMentor to launch a competition to see which conference can recruit the most volunteers. iMentor matches college-educated mentors with students from low-income communities to empower them to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions.
Alumni from the winning conference will be celebrated at an event in April. RSVP today, and don't forget to bring your fellow alumni and friends! To learn more about volunteering with iMentor, visit www.imentor.org/become-a-mentor.
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Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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Location: PS450, 450 Park Avenue South (between 30th and 31st Streets)
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"Check roofs are in a state of good repair now before the more extreme weather hits."
Unexpected types of damage can be caused by the weight of snow sitting on a roof or tree branches snapping off in gales and damaging property.
Martyn Foulds, senior claims manager for Halifax Home Insurance, said: "Winter is the time when we retreat to the warmth and safety of our homes, but before doing so there are some essential checks that need to be carried out.
"Prevention is certainly better than the cure, and much of the damage can be avoided if householders spent a small amount of time preparing for the bad weather."
Advice includes checking the condition of the roof; looking for cracked or broken tiles, cracks in the chimney or problems with the pointing; clearing gutters and drain pipes of any leaves or debris that have built up in them to reduce the risk of blocks and overflows; and cutting back low hanging branches that could cause damage in high winds.
And Alistair Smith, property risk manager at Aviva, said: "Last winter saw the coldest and most severe snow conditions in three decades, with no time for the repeated snow falls to melt.
"This meant a build up of layers created immense pressure on roofs and in some cases caused considerable damage to property and interruption to the day-to-day running of businesses.
"Check roofs are in a state of good repair now before the more extreme weather hits.
"Then keep an eye on the weather forecasts and look out for visible signs that the roof may be under stress. A deflection of the roof or cracking, splitting or twisting in the joists, beams and girders could indicate a problem."
Mr Smith also said that roof collapses occurred when the snow load exceeds the design load for the roof.
Large roofs could be a problem he said, as they may be less well structurally supported. But problems could also occur where the roof lines are staggered, resulting in snow building up, sliding or drifting onto lower levels.
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Long Form CV
•2008 - 2011, PhD, Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, August 2011
•2006 - 2008, M.S., Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, May 2008
•2002 - 2006, B.A., Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, May 2006
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Whitman College:
•Math 438, Statistical Theory, Fall 2013
•Math 350, Statistical Modeling, Spring 2013
•Math 349, Probability Theory, Spring 2013
•Math 338, Probability and Statistics, Spring 2012
•Math 300, Linear Algebra, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
•Math 248, Statistical Modeling, Spring 2014
•Math 247, Statistics with Applications, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
•Math 128, Elementary Statistics, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
Instructor, Colorado State University:
•Statistics 340, Multiple Regression Analysis, Spring 2010
•Statistics 301, Introduction to Statistical Methods, Fall 2007 - Summer 2008
Other Positions:
•Graduate Student Facilitator, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), June 2010
•Statistics 201, General Statistics, Teacher's Assistant, Colorado State University, Fall 2006
•Academic Assistant, St. Olaf College, September 2005 - May 2006
•Statistics Grader, St. Olaf College, February 2005 – May 2005
Statistical Consulting Positions
Thompson School District, Loveland, CO, May 2009 - June 2009
•Investigated the likelihood of student success in 8th grade algebra based on several different factors. Constructed logistic regression models and produced (along with another consultant) the memo "Early 8th-grade Algebra Intervention."
Contextual Learning Concepts, Loveland, CO, January 2009
•Consulted and produced (along with another consultant) the memo "Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) Math Performances of Students Enrolled in Contextualized and Regular Geometry Classes in Thompson R2J School District."
St. Olaf College's Admission Office, Northfield, MN, September 2005 - May 2006
•Received a Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship (NSF-0354308), which included participating in a collaborative research project investigating good predictors of a successful St. Olaf student.
St. Olaf College's Center for Experiential Learning, February 2005 - April 2005
•Hired by the Center for Experiential Learning (CEL) to summarize data from student and faculty surveys about awareness and participation in CEL services. Created a report which was included in the CEL's external program review.
Research Positions
•Research Assistant, Colorado State University, Fall 2009 and Summer 2010 - Spring 2011
•NSF-IGERT, Research Fellow, Colorado State University, Spring 2007 - Summer 2007, Fall 2008 - Summer 2009
•NSF-IGERT Summer Project, Research Assistant, Colorado State University, May 2007 - December 2007
•Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Research Assistant, Iowa State University, June 2005 - July 2005
•McConville, K. and C. Schumacher (In progress). Lasso Logistic Regression Estimator.
•Nicolaysen, K., Martin, C., Hatfield, V., Nye, C., and K. McConville (In progress). Are there Spatial or Temporal Patterns to Holocene Explosive Eruptions in the Aleutian Archipelago?
•McConville, K., Breidt, F. J., Lee, T. C. M., and G. Moisen (In progress). Model-Assisted Survey Regression Estimation with the Lasso.
•McConville, K. and F. J. Breidt (2013). Survey Design Asymptotics of the Model-Assisted Penalised Spline Regression Estimator. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 25, 745-763.
•Ayala, J., Corbin, P., McConville, K., Colonius, F., Kliemann, W., and J. Peters (2006). Morse Decompostion, Attractors, and Chain Recurrence. Proyecciones Journal of Mathematics 25, 79-109.
Speaking Engagements & Presentations
•8/02/2012. Model-Assisted Lasso Regression Estimator. Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, CA.
•6/23/2011. Design Asymptotics of a Penalized Spline Survey Regression Estimator. Graybill Conference, Fort Collins, CO.
•2/14/2011. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.
•2/10/2011. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC.
•2/01/2011. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
•1/27/2011. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
•1/25/2011. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
•1/21/2011. Improved Estimation for Complex Surveys Using Modern Regression Techniques. Bucknell College, Lewisburg, PA.
•1/20/2011. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. Williams College, Williamsburg, MA.
•1/06/2011. Design Asymptotics of a Penalized Spline Survey Regression Estimator. MAA Project NExT-Young Mathematicians' Network Poster Session, New Orleans, LA.
•12/02/2010. I Count Trees: How a Survey Statistician Estimates a Finite Population Total. Colby College, Waterville, ME.
•10/16/2010. Design Asymptotics of a Penalized Spline Survey Regression Estimator. National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Workshop on Environmetrics, Boulder, CO.
•4/19/2010. Design Consistency of a Penalized Spline Regression Estimator. Student Organized Research Group (SOAR) at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
•12/11/2007. Modeling the Effects of Diorhabda Elongata for the Control of Tamarisk (spp.). NSF-IGERT Summer Project Presentation at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
•11/05/2005. Global Analysis of a Dynamical System. Pi Mu Epsilon Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI.
•5/06/2005. A Real World Problem: Quality of LIfe in Brain Tumor Patients. St. Olaf College's Honors Day Symposium Math Practicum, Northfield, MN.
Honors, Awards, & Associations
•Member of the Mathematical Association of America, Fall 2010 - present
•Member of The Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Summer 2010 - present
•Member of the American Statistical Association, Fall 2006 - present
•Member of Phi Betta Kappa, Spring 2006 - present
•James L., M. Leslie, Edna Madison Memorial Award, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
•Elmer E. Remmenga Scholarship in Applied Statistics, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
•Graduation with distinction and magna cum laude, 2006
•Buntrock Regents Scholarship, 2002-2006
•Received a Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship, 2005 - 2006
•Dean's List, 2002-2005
Relevant Skills
Skilled with R, S-Plus, Minitab, Aquamacs E-macs, LaTeX; Blackboard programs (e.g., WebCT); Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint; Apple Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.


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Darren Criss' Blaine and his boys choir get a visit from Kurt who reportedly even considers transferring school.
"Glee" skips this week from airing a new episode but FOX offers a new sneak peek of the next one. Titled "Never Been Kissed", it looks like the episode is going to focus largely on Kurt's new finding which comes in the form of Darren Criss.
Kurt is considering a transfer to another school, words are it has something to do with him getting a love interest. At the end of the preview, Mr. Schue informed his students that they have a new competition calling themselves Dalton Academy Warblers. It is an all-boys boarding school where Criss' Blaine is schooled. According to some reports, Blaine and Kurt would perform "Teenage Dream" together.
Despite the episode's title, EW said in its corrected news that the ones smooching are not Kurt and Blaine. However, Chris Colfer said fans should expect something big happening to Kurt. "It's so big that we had a full meeting about it that we can't say anything. That's never happened before. I will say it's about Kurt," Colfer teased.
Talking further to TV Guide, Colfer admitted he was surprised when reading the script. "And then I thought, 'This is so terrific.' It's going to send a whole other message to the world," he gushed.
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She utilized it because she realized it was the only way past the dead-end trails.
A yellow, ivy-covered house on a dead-end street in Newark, Delaware.
And the Irish Republican movement was still engaged in armed struggle but looking to find a way out of that dead-end.
Her father is about to return, and his storyline—long a bit of a dead-end as well—will eventually wrap up, I imagine.
What they have done is taken a small neighborhood with dead-end streets and turned it into a medical neighborhood.
Just about the stuffiest, dullest, dead-end in the universe.
There is very little traffic across the frontier, so that Bridgetown station is a sort of dead-end.
But to nurse back to health a man who was to be court-martialled and shot, truly that seemed a dead-end occupation.
Thirty-five years old and working a dead-end job like this—Sammy was thirty-five.
When he had neared the top he suddenly seemed to reach a dead-end; the stones were smooth above him.


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|terrymichael.net | thoughts from a libertarian Democrat
Add another entry to Jack Abramoff's litany of sin: enabler of the Beltway Ethics Industry's cracked-out addiction to criminalizing political speech.
Stand clear of your mail slots, liberals, progressives and process conservatives. Thanks to Mr. Abramoff, you're about to get a pile from the folks at Common Cause, Public Citizen, and the other self-appointed guardians of proper public discourse. Your $25 gift will be URGENTLY! NEEDED (and probably underlined, with bold-face italics) to finance the latest legislative scheme to remove – once and for all! - the corrupting influence of money from politics.
As we all know, Jack Abramoff would never have duped those poor Native Americans, or corrupted good Christians like Tom DeLay if only....
....your tax dollars were publicly financing all federal election activity, instead of those corrupting checks from self-interested evil-do'ers;
....every breathing being on K street, including mail room guys and parking attendants, were required to register as lobbyists and fully disclose each dime they've received or disbursed since the third grade; and
....those partisan hacks at the Federal Election Commission were replaced by civic-minded eunuchs designated by a non-partisan panel of retired federal judges.
Ethics industry in high dudgeon
As we begin the new year in the ten square miles of surreality known as the District of Columbia, the arbiters of permissible pursing of political communication are in high dudgeon.
If only we had listened to them, none of this would have happened. It's long past time to get serious and adopt the final solution to congressionally corrupting cash, the Election Lawyers and Accountants Full Employment Act (ELAFEA), to replace FECA and BCRA – which (didn't we all know?) were acronyms far too weak to have any meaningful affect on the corrupting influence of dirty money on clean public policy. ("ELAFEA" has kind of a light Latin-y sound to it; if it doesn't end corruption, it's at least fun to say.)
The problem with our friends who make their livings promoting new and better ethics legislation is that they have too much faith in rules, and too little in voters.
One of the few good things about the mountain of campaign finance and governmental ethics legislation adopted since Watergate is that it has given interested citizens a remarkably transparent window on the sources and uses of money in politics.
You can't legislate morality
When will the good government types, and their hand-maidens at the editorial pages of liberal newspapers, learn that the Jack Abramoff's and Randy "Duke" Cunningham's of the world aren't going to be stopped by an endless expansion of the revised statutes or House and Senate ethics regulations? Jack and Duke did it because they thought they could get away with it, completely aware of the Federal Election Campaign Act and the Bi-partisan Campaign Reform Act, and all the other attempts to legislate morality.
Each new attempt to limit campaign finance and restrict lobbying causes hugely more harm than good, assaulting free political speech in the name of reform.
With the obvious exception of statues against bribery, we should roll back all the campaign contribution and expenditures restrictions; forget the folly of public financing of elections; and halt the criminalization of spending by lobbyists and the receiving of gifts by public officials and their employees.
Replace it all with strict requirements that every dollar given to politicians and every dime they spend be reported, whether it's to their campaign treasuries, their personal bank accounts, their employees, or non-profit entities with which they're involved.
Let democracy work through transparency
Then let democracy work through total transparency. There is endless digital space for storing such financial records and a world wide web available for journalistic and public inspection of them.
Let every interested citizen decide for himself whether cash is causing our public officials to serve themselves and narrow interests, or the public interest. And then throw the bums out – or exercise your democratic right to keep them, if you prefer.
There are a lot of reasons we're getting bad public policy. Government by press release. The rise of the permanent, candidate-centered, poll driven campaign. An irrational political discourse interpreted by verbal food fights on cable-babble. The weakening of our broad-based political parties, which can offset narrower interests. A lack of electoral competition in partisanly and ideologically Gerry-mandered congressional districts. The list can go on.
Cash corruption isn't the problem
But far down on that list is cash corruption. We don't fail to stop elderly entitlements from devouring the federal budget, for example, because the AARP writes checks to congressmen. It happens because greedy geezers want a free lunch, and intellectually corrupt politicians scare them to death and pander to their greed.
Advocates of gun control don't lose their arguments because of NRA donations to legislators, but because – like it or not -- the NRA has a constitutional right to talk to its members, and those members can be mobilized to withhold votes.
Democracy, with unfettered political communication, can be messy. But I have a lot more faith in it than I do in the rules junkies of Washington's ethics industry.
Terry Michael founded and directs the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism, which teaches college journalists about politics. A former Democratic National Com. press secretary in the mid-1980's, he is now a self-described "libertarian Democrat."
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Vikings wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson has a foot injury that has kept him from practicing with the team during the first few days of camp so far. However, he isn't expected to be out much longer, according to head coach Mike Zimmer.
"He's improving every day," Zimmer said of Patterson on Friday.
Patterson injured his foot last week, but the chatty wideout offered up no comment when asked how he injured it or what is exactly wrong.
Fantasy Analysis:
Unless this lingers for more than another handful of days, there is no reason to lower Patterson on your cheat sheet. He has crazy athleticism and is being groomed to be the Vikings' No. 1 wideout this season. He is a fourth-round pick on average and holds top-10 WR upside. Maybe top 10 is even too conservative given Patterson's skills.


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will the desire to have another baby EVER leave??? (birth ment)
February 19 2012 at 1:48 PM
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logically, we are done having babies. I love my two miracles and I still wonder if I am walking in a dream/delusion. IF can do such a number on your heart, eh??
But as I sit here in my kitchen for a bit of me time (and when will I stop feeling guilty for wanting me time?) with my laptop, I was looking at old posts, going back 4yrs to read what I said about DD's birthstory (partly because the most recent birth announcement on the pg bb was so touching and reminded me of how deeply in love with the world you are when your baby is born and how I suggested to her that she copy the birth story down for her dd because what a gift that would be to her dd and (gulp, I realized I didn't do that for MY dd. roll eyes) and it made me want to NB again. How needy they are and how willingly we give of ourselves to answer that need.
I don't even have to be pg again, I just want a baby to love and hold again. (it's not tilting me over the edge but it's really making me broody)
and I am so very close to menopause--I am 43 now and my mother was 45ish when she had her change of life. By my AFs, it looks like I'll be free and clear of AF by 45 too. My DH needs to get the ol' snip snip because he's worried about an unplanned pg (I truly think we aren't at risk and how I hate to use the word "risk") and although he know it's the best choice for us, he still hasn't made that call. I have (illogical) mixed feelings about his vas-ecto-my. I guess 7yrs (collectively) of IF has left emotional tattoos on my heart.
Anybody else feel this way?
I even remember thinking, while I was IF and ttc#1, how perhaps I'll never stop wanting and be one of these eccentric old lady with a calm happy smile on my face and push a pram with my cat in it, at the age of 80. lol And I fully expected for this desire to vanish once I did achieve my one dream of having a baby.
I sound high strung, I'm not. I'm simply think about this a lot and decided to share it here since you IF sisters might totally relate. My IRL girlfriends are awesome but somehow when I say this stuff out loud, I feel so ...ungrateful? Neurotic?
?? lol
thanks for listening if you've read this far
and hope you share your feelings to, I like hearing them
me:43, DH 44
DS: born by c-sec Apr15'03, 9lbs5oz 41wks gest. (after 4 years of ttc, starting in 1998)
DD born by c-sec Oct 13 2007, 8lbs13oz 39wk gest. (after just under 3 years of ttc)
~~DS was conceived naturally the cycle following a cancelled DE IVF, using my good friend's eggs. She was on the verge of hyperstimming.
~~DD's nat conception I attribute to using OPKs like a crazy nut, eating grapefruit daily and using preseed. also 5 cycles of TCM ending 2 cycles before that lucky cycle.
This message has been edited by juliemam on Feb 19, 2012 1:48 PM
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I remember when DS was a newborn
- ekb88 on Feb 20, 2012, 9:27 AM
I guess because Im in the trenches
- Alli on Feb 20, 2012, 10:06 AM
I hear you
- AJ on Feb 20, 2012, 10:49 AM
Hmm I'm in the same boat at AJ
- Rebekah on Feb 20, 2012, 4:54 PM
we are living parallel lives!
- Sarah in Seattle on Feb 20, 2012, 8:33 PM
YES, totally!
- Jamie on Feb 26, 2012, 3:07 PM


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Conference on Banking, Finance, Money and Institutions: The Post Crisis Era
- Institution Centre for Money, Banking & Institutions, University of Surrey (UK) & Center for Research in Contemporary Finance, Fordham University (USA)
- Event Type Conference
- Date November 01, 2013 - November 02, 2013
- Venue Surrey Business School, University of Surrey
- Location Guildford, UK
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The Conference aims to provide a forum for debate among researchers and policy makers from around the world on the performance of banking and financial markets, financial stability and risk management, and the monetary, regulatory and institutional environment, in light of the recent financial crisis. Topics of special interest, although not confined to the ones below, are: --Financial Stability: Competition, liquidity, pro-cyclicality; risk assessment (systemic; individual institutions); financial crises and resolution --Financial regulation and Monetary policy: Basel III, macro-prudential regulation; monetary policy strategy under uncertainty; unconventional types of monetary policy, law and finance, the role of committees in setting monetary policy --Bank management: Role of leaders, risk management, internal control, corporate governance & remuneration reforms, mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcy, --Financial Markets: Globalization and integration, asset pricing and housing bubbles, behavioural finance. --Political economy: Role of public opinion and election, inequality and redistribution --Institutional development: the interaction of formal (political economy, regulations and its implementation) and informal (e.g., social norms, psychology) institutions with policy actions during the crisis The conference is jointly organized by the Centre for Money, Banking & Institutions (University of Surrey) and the Center for Research in Contemporary Finance (Fordham University, USA). The Guest Speakers of the conference are: Anthony Saunders, New York University, USA & Hans Degryse, University of Leuven, Belgium & Tilburg University, Netherlands Selected papers of high quality will be published in special issues in: Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments (Wiley-Blackwell) & International Review of Financial Analysis (Elsevier)
- Submission Deadline06-15-2013
- Registration Deadline09-15-2013
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