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Chicago, Illinois (CNN) ??Hadiya Pendleton, 15, was laid to rest on Saturday following a funeral in which her family struggled to keep national politics from overshadowing her memory.

The funeral was attended by numerous political figures, including Michelle Obama. Pendleton was shot just one mile from the Obamas' Chicago home, and an online petition urged the president to visit his hometown to address the gun violence. Late last week, the White House announced that not only would the first lady attend the funeral but that President Obama would visit Chicago this week to talk about gun violence there.

Cleopatra Cowley, Pendleton?s mother, is scheduled to attend the president?s State of the Union address, in which he is expected to bring up gun control. Other family members of shootings victims, from mass shootings such as Newtown, Tucson, Aurora and Virginia Tech, are also expected to attend.

During the Saturday funeral, Cowley spoke only briefly, and gave a glimpse into her grief:

[:56] ?You don?t know how hard this really is. And those of you who do know how hard this is? I?m sorry. I?m sorry. No mother, no father should ever have to experience this.?

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New President and Vice-President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Shri Subodh Kumar Agrawal, a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with 24 years of standing has taken over as the new President of the Institute w. e. f. today. Shri K. Raghu has been elected as the new Vice-President of ICAI. Both later addressed a Press Conference and assured that the Institute will be ever vigilant in fulfilling the expectations that the society has from it.

Shri Agrawal has been serving as Central Council member of the Institute for two terms since 2007. He has specialization in the area of internal and statutory audit of private and public sector entities viz. banks and insurance companies. He has been actively involved with the functioning of the Central Council of the Institute in various capacities, viz. as Vice President and Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Member of its various Committees.

Shri K. Raghu?s area of specialization is taxation, business and technology consulting. He was elected to the Central Council of the ICAI for the first time for the term 2007-10. During his tenure in the Central Council, he has been the Chairman of Information Technology Committee and spearheaded the web-casting and e-learning initiatives of ICAI.

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Tribe Women?s Gymnastics Places Third at George Washington Tri-Meet

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Microsoft Excel 2010 - Essentials

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Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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Learn the essentials of Microsoft Excel and spreadsheets to create and save workbooks, format text and numbers, select ranges and move or copy data. Learn how to use formulas and basic functions, explore printing options for worksheets and how to insert pictures. Saving worksheets as PDF files, formatting rows and columns and inserting SmartArt will also be covered. To register visit http://EODinfo.tamu.edu/ and select Course Schedule.

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Quote Unquote: Vincent O'Sullivan goes to the dogs

Strictly speaking this is not Quote Unquote material but it?s close. I can?t remember for which newspaper I wrote this profile of Vincent O?Sullivan but it was in 2004, when he was shortlisted in the Montana book awards for his fine Mulgan biography Long Journey to the Border. It?s slightly out of date as he has published several books since then, most recently The Movie May be Slightly Different in 2011, as covered previously here, but as with any interview with Vincent, there are some great quotes:

?I see myself as someone who buggers around a lot,? says Vincent O?Sullivan, emeritus professor English at VictoriaUniversity. ?I can go for weeks without writing a line, then work hard for a week or so.?

Imagine what he?d have produced if he?d really applied himself to his writing instead of concentrating on an academic career that has brought him international renown. His poetry collection (there are now 14) Seeing You Asked won Best Book of Poetry at the 1999 Montana NZ Book Awards. That year his novel Believers to the Bright Coast was runner-up in the fiction; its predecessor Let the River Stand had won the 1994 award. This year, Long Journey to the Border is shortlisted in the biography section.

He was joint editor of the five-volume Letters of Katherine Mansfield. An Anthology of Twentieth-Century New Zealand Poetry was a standard text for a quarter of a century. There are five collections of short stories. His play Shuriken was performed in Japan. He won the 1993 Mobil Radio Drama Award.

He has excelled, then, in every literary form apart from the sports biography and the cookbook. It?s only a matter of time?

As fellow poet and novelist Kevin Ireland says, ?Through all his work he has maintained the highest creative standards. It?s not often appreciated that some of his short stories are among the finest written here. The only academic near him to straddle the two worlds of critical and creative writing is CK Stead, who for all his merits hasn?t achieved the same breadth.

?The poetry is not confessional and he has been tough on poets who write like that ? hanging out all their washing. His poetry is about observation, reflection and commentary ? it?s not a public laundry.?

His poem ?The Grieving Process?, in which the narrator remembers his late father, has the marvellous line, ?He?s a big sunset still fading the curtains.? O?Sullivan admits that, while the poem is not about his own father, that line certainly is. It?s a rare instance of the poem?s ?I? meaning I.

There have been gaps between the poetry books ? 1998?s Seeing You Asked was the first entirely new collection since The Pilate Tapes in 1986. Some poets get distressed when the well runs dry, but his view is that ?there?s no point worrying about it. Worrying is a form of vanity ? is the world being robbed of anything? But I?m quite glad and grateful when I am writing. It?s important that you take the work seriously but not yourself seriously.?

Does he regret not starting earlier and writing more novels? ?I think of myself as a writer, not a poet or playwright or whatever,? he says. ?A sportsman may be good at one but be interested in others. The game factor is important ? writing is a game, variously serious and trivial, where you get satisfaction from operating within the constraints.?

O?Sullivan knows a lot about rugby and other sports ? he has written about racing and as director of the Stout Centre organised a conference on sport. It features in his fiction, too. Let the River Stand has a lot about boxing which, he says, ?is a bit repellent but quite attractive, like a lot of things in life?.

A sporting highlight must have been the night of 20 September 2002, when he presented the Professor Vincent O?Sullivan Stakes ? the prize was a pewter tankard and ?185 ? to the trainer of Sourcey Number at London?s Walthamstow Stadium greyhound races. O?Sullivan had backed General Karl for a win, but the dog failed to place.

This was a surprise organised by his former PhD student Sarah Sandley, now publisher/CEO of NZ Magazines, who says of him, ?He?s a great wit and raconteur. He never repeats himself ? you?ll always hear new stories. As a thesis supervisor where things were obviously profoundly wrong he?d be very tactful.?

Which is not quite how Graeme Lay remembers him: ?As a tutor he was a bit scary because he could be scathing, but he was one of the few Victoria University staff members one came across on the rough end of the party circuit. He had another life outside the tutorial room, which made him unique. He could be devastating in his comments on the essays. I didn?t appreciate it at the time, but I?ve greatly enjoyed getting to know him over the years ? he?s very irreverent.

?His great virtue is that he has always mixed with people who are disreputable, not just academics. He and Harry Orsman used to drink at the back bar of DeBretts or at the Duke of Edinburgh, where all the subversive people used to get together in the 60s and 70s. He?s not an ivory-tower person, even though he?s so scholarly. He gets his feet dirty.?

Which may be why his characters can be so wonderfully vulgar: in the hilarious story ?Putting Bob Down?, one says that ?to root above one?s station is the first step to the stars?. The best joke in Believers is unprintable in a newspaper.

Lay recalls his favourite moment at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival: ?Vincent was reading his poems to the worshipful multitudes after lunch at the top of the Hyatt hotel, then immediately urged me, after he sat down, ?Now let?s get the hell out of here and watch the rugby.? We absconded, took the lift down to his room and watched the Super 12 final live on TV, in the company of Maurice Gee, Kevin Ireland, yourself and other writers who love rugby as much as poetry.?

The scathing comments Lay recalls haven?t been confined to student essays. As Sandley says, ?He can?t resist an aphorism, but is never mean-spirited.? True, but you really don?t want to get on the wrong side of him. His verdict on a former Listener editor: ?a waterbed in a three-piece suit?. On a female academic: ?She defined a book as what she had to read, alas,/ prior to saying something of significance about it.? On a politician named Richard: ?a head badly carved from grey soap,/ its complexion a pocked carpet?.

As books editor at the Listener in 1979, he grumbled when a particularly inept review came in that he would get better results if he just handed out the books at random on the Wadestown bus. The subeditors were never certain that he didn?t do exactly that.

In his play Jones & Jones, he has Katherine Mansfield say, ?I?m an artist? Our vocation is to tell the truth as only the born liar can.? That sounds like a Wilde pastiche but actually is typical O?Sullivan: he talks like this. Asked at the 2004 Writers and Readers? Week whether he was planning to write an autobiography, he said, ?Oh, I don?t have the imagination for that.?

On being Catholic: ?It?s similar to being a Pakeha or a New Zealander because that?s what I am. It doesn?t mean I go along with every absurdity, but if you try to dissociate yourself from it, it becomes an exercise in self-castration ? and I have no ambition to be the boy soprano of New Zealand literature.?

Of the projects he is currently working on, he?s reluctant to say more than ?a book of short stories and a couple of pieces of long fiction?. No poems? ?You can?t predict that,? he says. ?Only a prosaic writer could be certain about the next book of poems.?

UPDATE: On Saturday the Economist reported that England?s greyhound racing industry has been in decline for decades and now internet gambling looks likely to finish it off. Walthamstow closed in August 2008, Oxford on 29 December last year. I fear that we shall never see the Professor Vincent O?Sullivan Stakes again. On the other hand, we still have greyhound racing here in Cambridge, where Vincent used to live and still occasionally visits. Is it to much to hope?

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'Lincoln,' 'Argo' face off for Britain's Oscars

LONDON (AP) ? Hollywood stars squelched up a soggy red carpet Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which pitted presidential biopic "Lincoln" against epic musical "Les Miserables" and Iran hostage crisis drama "Argo."

Steven Spielberg's stately historical drama about slavery-abolishing U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has 10 nominations at Britain's equivalent of the Oscars, including best picture and best actor, for Daniel Day-Lewis ? though no directing nomination for Spielberg.

British-made favorite "Les Miserables" and Ang Lee's magical realist journey "Life of Pi" received nine nominations each. James Bond adventure "Skyfall" got eight and "Argo" seven.

"Skyfall," the highest-grossing film in the Bond series' 50-year history, was named best British film ? rare awards-season recognition for an action movie. Thomas Newman's score also won the best-music prize.

Director Sam Mendes said he was accepting the trophy on behalf of the "1,292 people" who worked on "Skyfall."

"We all had high expectations for this film and it's fair to say all of them have been exceeded," Mendes said. "Here's to the next 50 years."

The early prizes were shared widely, with "Les Mis" taking trophies for sound and makeup/hair, "Argo" winning the editing prize and "Life of Pi" receiving the honor for cinematography.

Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for "Django Unchained," and Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for playing a loquacious bounty hunter in Tarantino's slave-revenge thriller.

Waltz said his victory was entirely due to Tarantino ? "you silver-penned devil, you."

Anne Hathaway was named best supporting actress for her brief but powerhouse performance in "Les Miserables." Hathaway said she was "overjoyed" ? and so taken aback that "I almost walked past George Clooney without hugging him."

Writer-director David O. Russell won the adapted screenplay prize for "Silver Linings Playbook," a comedy about characters confronting mental illness.

Before the ceremony, stars including Clooney, "Argo" director and star Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper braved a chilly rain that turned to snow outside the Royal Opera House.

For once it was hair, even more than frocks, that drew attention ? though Marion Cotillard defied the dull weather in a canary-yellow gown. Beards were de rigeur among male stars including Clooney, Affleck and Cooper, while Helen Mirren turned heads with a pink 'do, sported in honor of breast cancer awareness.

Jackman, who has hosted the Tony Awards several times and is up for a best actor award, said it was far easier simply to be a nominee.

"After hosting an event like this or two, it's just so much more relaxing just to watch the show," he said.

The British Academy Film Awards, known as BAFTAs, are increasingly glamorous ? despite a well-earned reputation for dismal weather ? and ever-more scrutinized as an indicator of likely success at the Hollywood Oscars. In recent years they have prefigured Academy Awards triumph for word-of-mouth hits including "Slumdog Millionaire," ''The King's Speech" and "The Artist."

This season's movie with momentum is crowd-pleaser "Argo," based on the true story of a group of U.S. diplomats spirited out of Tehran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It has been building steam with big prizes at ceremonies such as the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild and the Directors Guild of America Awards.

"Argo" marks a change for Affleck, whose first two features as director ? "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town" ? were set in his native Boston. In "Argo" he stars as Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who poses as a sci-fi filmmaker in a risky plot to rescue Americans in Tehran.

"I wanted to get as far away from Boston as I could," Affleck said. "I ended up in Iran."

"Argo" is now considered a front-runner for the best picture award at the Oscars on Feb. 24, even though Affleck was not nominated for best director. Bookmakers also have made the film favorite to win the best picture BAFTA, over finalists "Lincoln," ''Les Miserables," ''Life of Pi" and Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty."

"'Argo' is the big mover in the whole of the awards season," said Rupert Adams, spokesman for bookies William Hill.

Besides Affleck, the heavyweight best director list includes Michael Haneke for "Amour," Tarantino for "Django Unchained," Lee for "Life of Pi" and Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty."

The male acting contenders are Affleck, Day-Lewis, Jackman for "Les Miserables," Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook" and Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master."

Day-Lewis is considered almost certain to win. Hill put the odds at 1/25, with the next favorite, Jackman, a long way off at 10/1.

"The only time I have seen a shorter price than that in recent years was Helen Mirren in 'The Queen,'" said William Hill's Adams. "As far as we are concerned, it is virtually done and dusted."

The best actress shortlist includes: 85-year-old "Amour" star Emmanuelle Riva, who was nominated for the same prize 52 years ago for "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"; Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"; Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty"; Cotillard for "Rust and Bone"; and Mirren for "Hitchcock."

Poignant old-age portrait "Amour" is up for best foreign language film, along with Norway's "Headhunters," Denmark's "The Hunt" and French films "Rust and Bone" and "Untouchable."

Sunday's ceremony will also see director Alan Parker receive a BAFTA Fellowship, the academy's highest honor, for a career that includes "Midnight Express," ''Fame" and "Mississippi Burning."

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Online: http://www.bafta.org

Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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Why US Internet Access is Slow and Expensive

US citizens pay more for internet access than those in many other countries—and also get worse connections for their cash. This video explains why. More »

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