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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is unhappy with Forbes magazine, accusing it of prejudice in estimating his wealth at $20bn – a mere 26th among the world's 1,426 billionaires. The Saudi investor has broken off his "longstanding relationship with the Forbes billionaires list" and sought comfort in the Bloomberg Billionaires ranking.
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Jazz Ensemble I: New Notes
Tuesday, November 12th 8pm Bowker AuditoriumDirected by Jeffrey W. Holmes, featuring newly-composed jazz student works & the premiere of Lyris by saxophonist/composer Bill Murphy, commissioned by the Jazz & African-American Studies Program at UMass Amherst.
Plus a special guest appearance by the student-led jazz quartet, City of Four.
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors
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Minuteman Marching Band at GilletteSaturday, November 16thGame vs. AKRON, 1pm, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MACome watch the Minuteman Marching Band perform at Gillette Stadium during your Minuteman Football Games! Tickets: Please see UMass Football Page
November 10 Sunday 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Nigel Coxe, piano
Performing J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Preludes & Fugues, Nos. 1-12
Nigel Coxe was awarded the Bach Prize adjudicated by the eminent English pianist & Bach exponent Dame Myra Hess, while he was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Professor Coxe's words about the concert: "It is my desire to give our audience an opportunity, which is not too common, to hear Bach's masterpiece, the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Preludes & Fugues. The work is the bedrock of all later keyboard music and has been crucial to my life and work."
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Gale Force Five (Graduate Woodwind Quintet)
Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Featuring the music of Cambini, Berio, Ewazen, Grainger and Hindemith.
Ensemble members: Megan Jones, oboe; Sara Mitchell, clarinet; Katherine Amisano, flute; Francesca Panunto, bassoon; and Chelsea Miller, horn
Wednesday, November 13, 8:15pm, Bezanson Recital Hall
Alissa Platcow, voice
Free & open to the public
Saturday, November 16 1pm Bezanson Recital Hall
David Ellis, trombone
Friday, November 15 7:30pm FAC Room 44
Featuring Lucas Apostoleris and Caleb Davis
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Prize Recipient
Shiladitya Banerjee
Syracuse University
"Cell Mechanics: From cytoskeletal dynamics to tissue-scale mechanical phenomena."Background:
Shiladitya Banerjee received his Phd in Physics from Syracuse University in 2013. His doctoral thesis research was supervised by Prof. M. Cristina Marchetti. During his Phd, Shiladitya studied the mechanics and shape of living cells and developed theoretical models to describe active stress generation in cells, tissues and their underlying cytoskeleton. The models predicted in a unified manner how intra-cellular force generation is coordinated across tissue length scales and defined their relationships with the extracellular physical properties. In collaboration with the group of Eric Dufresne at Yale University, Shiladitya and coworkers combined theory and experiments to measure and predict an emergent surface tension in epithelial cell layers, thus establishing a direct relationship between mechanical energy and the geometric size in a model tissue. They further showed that cells in a tissue form a mechanically integrated system, where intercellular adhesions organize and coordinate the mechanical activity of cell monolayers, thus playing an important role in the mechanical regulation of tissues during development, homeostasis, and disease. Shiladitya's dissertation also received the All-Univeristy doctoral prize from Syracuse University. Shiladitya graduated with BSc. (Hons) in Physics from Chennai Mathematical Institute (India) in 2008. His undergraduate performance was awarded by a Gold Medal of Excellence in Physics. Shiladitya is currently doing Postdoctoral Research at the James Franck Institute in the University of Chicago.


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55th Annual GRAMMY Awards - All the Winners!
The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held tonight, Feb. 10, 2013, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live on CBS from 8 - 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
BWW will be keeping you updated with the evening's winners below!
Click here for the list of pre-telecast winners.
Best Pop Solo Performance
"Set Fire To The Rain (Live)" - Adele ***WINNER***
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson
"Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
"Wide Awake" - Katy Perry
"Where Have You Been" - Rihanna
Best Country Solo Performance:
"Home" - Dierks Bentley
"Springsteen" - Eric Church
"Cost Of Livin'" - Ronnie Dunn
"Wanted" - Hunter Hayes
"Over" - Blake Shelton
"Blown Away" - Carrie Underwood ***WINNER***
Song Of The Year:
"The A Team" - Ed Sheeran, songwriter (Ed Sheeran)
"Adorn" - Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)
"Call Me Maybe" - Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen & Josh Ramsay, songwriters (Carly Rae Jepsen)
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Jörgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters (Kelly Clarkson)
"We Are Young" - Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (FUN. Featuring Janelle Monáe) ***WINNER***
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Fortune - Chris Brown
Kaleidoscope Dream - Miguel
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean ***WINNER***
Best Rock Performance
"Hold On" - Alabama Shakes
"Lonely Boy" - The Black Keys ***WINNER***
"Charlie Brown" - Coldplay
"I Will Wait" - Mumford & Sons
"We Take Care Of Our Own" - Bruce Springsteen
Best Pop Vocal Album
"Stronger" - Kelly Clarkson ***WINNER***
"Ceremonials" - Florence & The Machine
"Some Nights" - Fun.
"Overexposed" - Maroon 5
"The Truth About Love" - Pink
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
"Wild Ones" - Flo Rida Featuring Sia
"No Church In The Wild" - Jay-Z & Kanye West Feat. Frank Ocean & The-Dream ***WINNER***
"Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" - John Legend Featuring Ludacris
"Cherry Wine" - Nas Featuring Amy Winehouse
"Talk That Talk" - Rihanna Feautring Jay-Z
Best Country Album:
"Uncaged" - Zac Brown Band ***WINNER***
"Hunter Hayes" - Hunter Hayes
"Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran" - Jamey Johnson
"Four The Record" - Miranda Lambert
"The Time Jumpers" - The Time Jumpers
Best New Artist:
Alabama Shakes
Hunter Hayes
The Lumineers
Frank Ocean
Record Of The Year:
"Lonely Boy" - The Black Keys
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson
"We Are Young" - FUN. Featuring Janelle Monáe
"Somebody That I Used To Know" - Gotye Featuring Kimbra ***WINNER***
"Thinkin Bout You" - Frank Ocean
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift
Album Of The Year:
"El Camino" - The Black Keys
"Some Nights" - FUN.
"Babel" - Mumford & Sons ***WINNER***
"Channel Orange" - Frank Ocean
"Blunderbuss" - Jack White


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Just in the nick of time, when we needed a new thread because the last one was getting too long, comes this from MSG Network:
Household Rating of 3.45 is Highest-Rated Rangers Game Since 1997
New York, NY – April 14, 2011 – MSG Plus' Wednesday night telecast of the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals in Game 1 of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs garnered a 3.45 household Nielson rating, making it the highest-rated Rangers game since May 8, 1997 when the Rangers faced the New Jersey Devils in the Conference Semifinals.
The game was also the highest-rated event on MSG Plus since 2004.
Compared to the 2009 Playoffs, when the Rangers also faced the Capitals in the first round, the game was up 40% in the household (3.45 HH vs. 2.47 HH).
In the young M18-34 demographic the game scored a 3.75 rating, which was second overall when compared to all other programs in the New York region that aired last night during primetime, falling just behind Modern Family (3.76 M18-34), but ahead of American Idol (2.85 M18-34).
The Rangers and Capitals square-off in Game 2 Friday night on MSG Network starting at 7:30 p.m. Coverage of the game on MSG Network starts with the pre-game show at 7:00 p.m. and concludes immediately following the game with a 60-minute post game show.
Still about 24 hours to join our playoff beard contest … Send me your "before" photo along with your actual name and your screen name (the one we'll use to identify you) and your email address (in case we have questions). Send them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
You may now continue your discussion of whether Sean Avery should replace one of the other fourth-liners, or whether fourth-liner Erik Christensen should be promoted to the first line — which usually works for about 10 minutes then goes to hell.


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The English major demonstrates his or her ability to Conduct research in literary and cultural studies. He or she will
- Use bibliographic tools to find source material
- Employ appropriate critical approaches in their research
- Contribute to scholarly conversations about literary and cultural texts and phenomena
- Incorporate and document source material using MLA style
- Communicate in accordance with standards of academic integrity
In my coursework, I have developed these skills through a variety of projects. I have selected X learning artifacts to show that I have met each of the five components of the Research learning outcome.
Here I will explain why my chosen learning artifacts demonstrate that I have met each of these components.
A particularly productive way to demonstrate growth over time is to compare an artifact from the freshman or sophomore year with one from the junior or senior year and to explain how you believe the pair of texts shows that you are now meeting this learning outcome.