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During the three weeks at IE, you will have the opportunity to take classes with an outstanding faculty, the same that teach our internationally recognized master degrees.
The focus during the first week will be on developing your soft skills (team building, leadership, communication, design thinking). The second week is designed to give students a well-rounded view of the different areas that make up modern organizations. Students will participate in dynamic sessions on subjects as diverse as Communication, Marketing, Finance, Big Data or Strategy. IE Summer School 2015
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* Oxford University's ONLY official summer school program for students studying in their first year of further education. * Open exclusively to UK state school/colleges. TOTALLY FREE. * Now in our sixth year of operation.
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Aim to give students a realistic view of Oxford student life and raise aspirations. * Students live in an Oxford college for one week in July or August and attend lectures in their chosen subject. * Academic study is completed together with a diverse evening social programme. * Staffed by Oxford academics, post-graduate students and a 24/7 support team. * Can be used as part of the DofE or ASDAN Awards
* 800-850 places will be available * Applications opened on 6 January at 10:00AM and closed on 12 February at 05:00PM. * UNIQ 2015 will run across 5 weeks starting on the 4 July. * All applications are submitted through an online system that went live on the 6 January.Typical Applicants will have: * Have a handful of A* grades at GCSE (or equivalant). * Currently studying in the first year of further education. * Attends a state school or college that has low/no engagement with Oxford. * May live in an area with low progression to Higher Education. * May live in an area with a low socio-economic profile. * Able to demonstrate passion for their subject through a short personal statement.We are 100% free. Everything and anything that you can think of is included. Return Travel to Oxford, 3 Meals a day, College Accomodation, Study Materials, Pre-Reading Books, Evening Social Activities - all are paid for on behalf of the student. If you are a parent or teaching professional, please help spread the message of UNIQ. If you know of a student that did well in their GCSE's and got a good selection of A* grades (4 A*'s is the preferred minimum) then do make them aware of this opportunity especially if they are eligable for our 2016 schools. Applying is very straightforward & we will have comprehensive advice on this website to help. From the Outer Hebrides to Penzance - we have had students attend UNIQ from all across England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Island and we are very keen to see applications from students that have never considered Oxford before. The University also offers other initiatives that you may find interesing:

Don’t you just love it when 19-year-olds claim to know what makes a relationship work? Now that her scandal has officially become so last year, teen actress Vanessa Hudgens has started to feel a bit more comfortable talking about herself and her boyfriend, Zac Efron.
In the upcoming issue of CosmoGIRL!, the High School Musical actress tells her female fans that romances shouldn’t be a struggle. “If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it.” (In other words: trying to figure out how to hold a camera while posing nude might not be necessary.) “You finish each others’ sentences and have the same sense of humor.”These are photos previously unpublished and Model Look Italian actress Anna Falchi, made in 1990, when he was only 18 years of photography, Bruno Oliviero. 41-year-old domestic displayed seski, or without them covered only in sheets. Whenever invents something different to attract the glances. So after vomiting on stage, this time the explosive Lady Gaga changed clothes in front of the stunned eyes of thousands of fans.
The 28 year old pop star left with only the mesh tights and offered ... a super sexy show her fans, after changing clothes while singing on stage! Some even rushed to say that the famous singer was not wearing underwear! All this happened in the first concert of the tour entitled "ARTPOP" Russian footballer Aleksandr Kokorin, is facing the wrath of his girlfriend came out in public some intimate pictures from an evening of 'crazy'. Dynamo Moscow midfielder spent a night with two prostitutes and pictures from the event have reached the Internet. 23-year-old will try to be justified before his girlfriend for this act

On a hazy spring afternoon in a farmyard gym outside Brentwood in Essex, Anthony Joshua’s face lights up as he anticipates the most important contest of his brief but highly impressive boxing career so far. He faces the swaggering American Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday and his opponent has talked up a storm. “We squared off at the first press conference and it’s great that Johnson has no fear of me and I have no fear of him,” Joshua says with a wide grin. “He’s been in with Vitali Klitschko and he’s thinking: ‘If Vitali can’t drop me, who the hell is this kid?’” The 25-year-old laughs softly at the apparent logic of Johnson. “Look, he’s an American. They’re a different breed. They’re arrogant. Their egos are bigger than themselves but that’s what makes it interesting.” Amir Khan can rule welterweight division for years, says Virgil Hunter Read more Joshua, with his imposing physique and cheerful character layered by a bright intelligence and past adversity, is an Olympic champion with a 12-0 professional record. None of his opponents have lasted more than three rounds but Joshua thinks carefully and talks fluidly whether assessing Johnson’s mentality or revealing that, while still a Watford teenager, he was on remand and preparing for a 10-year prison term. That candid admission indicates a serious resolve to make up for his youthful mistakes and, one day, become the undisputed world heavyweight champion. But, first, he is genuinely engaged when asked if he thinks Johnson really believes he can win their fight. Joshua leans back in his chair and savours the question. “Hmmm … let me put myself in Johnson’s shoes. If I do that then the answer is ‘yes’. He will be looking at me as a green novice who has had only 12 fights. He’s going to throw some sneaky lefts which he thinks might shock me. I think he really does believe he has a chance.” Johnson is canny and he has not been stopped in 36 fights. He is expected to last longer than any of Joshua’s previous opponents – even if that means he adopts a strategy of survival to avoid being hit cleanly. In his quieter reflections Johnson will have seen how Joshua’s pulverising power appears more evident with each new victory. “The last guy was supposed to last,” the 6ft 6in Joshua says of Raphael Zumbano Love, the experienced Brazilian heavyweight, whom he knocked out inside two rounds in Birmingham this month. “A lot of guys I’ve fought as a pro have been shorter than me and they’ve been trying to counter me. Zumbano was about the same height so I could counter him. I slipped more punches and that’s how I got Zumbano. I threw a lazy jab just as he did and I knew I was coming over the top. That’s why I got that spectacular KO. I’m not punching down. I’m punching straight over the top of his jab. “But I’m not hitting anywhere near as hard as I can because I want the rounds. People say of every opponent: ‘When are you going to knock him out?’ But I’m not like Mike Tyson who came flying out of his corner. I’m much more composed. A guy is supposed to be durable but then I start finding my range and, well, it comes together. Boom.” James DeGale wins IBF title with unanimous decision over Andre Dirrell Read more Joshua spreads his hands and smiles helplessly at his power. Over the course of the afternoon we talk a lot about great old heavyweights, from Joe Louis to Tyson, and Joshua is acutely aware how even once seemingly impregnable champions were not only defeated but ended up in chaos, debt and drug addiction. He pinpoints the need to keep the myth of invincibility in check and, even more pressingly, to avoid a vast retinue of admirers and hangers-on. He may have looked like a sculpted wrecking machine in his first dozen fights but Joshua admits he has yet to be examined. The heavyweight thinks long and hard when asked if he can identify even a small moment of difficulty for him as a pro. The pause lasts 10 seconds before Joshua shakes his head. “In the gym, during sparring, there have been some. But in the arenas, during fights, not one hard moment springs to mind. The only thing I could say is that I boxed Michael Sprott with a fractured back [Joshua’s injury was diagnosed after his first-round win]. But it’s still early days.” Joshua knows that, eventually, there will be hard nights ahead. And so it feels important to ask him about his last defeat at the 2011 amateur world championships. “Magomedrasul Majidov was an unbelievable fighter,” he says of the renowned amateur from Azerbaijan. “But I had only been boxing for two and a half years then because my first amateur fight was in November 2008. So he was much more experienced. “Majidov wasn’t big or tough-looking. I thought I would have him easy. But in the first round I was like a novice, missing shots, spinning off. I still thought it was going to be easy. But he came steaming out in the second and caught me with a beautiful shot. Boom. I was OK but I thought: ‘You want to take it there? Suits me.’ I lost my composure and went toe-to-toe with him. That cost me the fight. He won 21-20. I shed a tear afterwards.” Muhammad Ali’s phantom punch has us scratching our heads 50 years on Richard Williams Richard Williams Read more As we discuss his two other defeats as an amateur, Joshua selects his second loss at the European Championships, also in 2011, as a way to understand his troubled background. “That was when I had my one court case,” he says, remembering how he had been caught in possession of cannabis and charged wrongly with an intent to supply. “They had banned me from all boxing internationally and domestically for my club. I thought I’m done with boxing. So I went back to Watford and started hanging around with my mates. But that’s when GB Boxing called me up and asked if I want to go to the Europeans. They said: ‘We’re still looking into your case …’ So I had a week’s training and then lost in the quarter-finals. “It was a turning point. Before the world championships I said: ‘Man, I have to change. I have an opportunity with boxing that I believe in. I am going to focus all my energies in boxing.’ I was 21 and I’d had my share of problems. Another court case actually got me into boxing. I was facing a long sentence … and when I beat that I decided to start boxing.” Was this earlier case also cannabis-related? “No,” Joshua says. “It was fighting and other crazy stuff. I was actually on remand, when you’re in jail waiting for your sentence. There are idiots inside and this is when you realise what you are dealing with in prison. I was on remand in Reading for two weeks. Once you’re there it’s 50-50 because you’ve been found guilty, so I was preparing myself for the worst. It could have been 10 years.
I would’ve been there until I was 28 because I was 18 at the time. So I would have still been there right now …” Joshua shakes his head bleakly at his narrow escape but then brightens. “My guardian angel decided I didn’t need to be punished with a jail sentence. But I was on tag for over a year and that helped. I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o’clock and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before it was ‘act now, think later’ – but the discipline and reading changed me. “Before, I was just with guys my age or younger and we’d drive past fancy houses and say: ‘Oh, when I make my money I’m going to buy that house.’ But it was a far-fetched dream. People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime your ambitions are low. It’s strange but now I am being invited into these fancy houses. And I enter them polite and humble. It’s amazing how boxing turned me around.” We’re at a farmyard house, owned by a friend of Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, where there is a helicopter in the back garden. And yet I like the fact Joshua has not swapped his council house in Golders Green in north-west London for a swanky penthouse. “I’m happy where I am,” he says. “I bought the council house and I’ve got another small flat as an investment. It’s humbling and it shows I’m only 12 fights in and I’m not in the big-money fights yet. And it’s so expensive in London. So I am doing more investments rather than buying luxury things. You can make a lot of money in boxing – but you have not come from an educated background. Guys have come from jail or poverty-ridden backgrounds and suddenly they’re in million-dollar fights. That’s why I’m staying sensible and making sure it’s structured. It’s also why I went into camp with Wladimir Klitschko. I chatted to him as much as possible
. I wanted to see how a champion operates and I achieved that. I also got to showcase some of my skills.” When I last spoke to Klitschko he was effusive in his praise for Joshua – both for his prowess between the ropes and his maturity outside the ring. Klitschko told me he had no doubt Joshua would follow him as the dominant force in the heavyweight division for years. “It’s very interesting,” Joshua says. “A lot of UK heavyweights never give you a compliment. But Wlad, who has an Olympic medal and is the second-longest-running world champ after Joe Louis, can give me these unbelievable props. Someone like Tyson Fury says he would knock out Wlad but it’s not based on logic. He just says: ‘Wlad’s shit.’ I want to say ‘shut up’ to those kind of guys. They’ve done nothing compared to Klitschko.” The Ukrainian is 39 and it is surely unlikely he will still be fighting in another 18 months when Joshua may be ready to challenge him. “No man!” Joshua exclaims. “It’s very likely. You know boxing. A great world champion and the new prospect would be a huge fight. My gut says it will definitely happen. What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him.
Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him. In order to become a great you have to beat the current champion in totally dominant fashion. That’s why I would like to fight Klitschko.” A supposedly durable big-mouth in “Kingpin” Johnson, however, needs to be beaten next. “No one has ever stopped him so I am in a win-win situation – unless I lose,” Joshua quips. “He’s a credible opponent for my 13th fight. If I don’t stop him I will have gone 10 rounds for the first time. If I knock him out? Well it’s just another guy who, once I hit him, stays hit. How can I lose?

Beneath a sky made opaque by billowing dust, a mechanised shovel driver steered his vehicle toward the vast wall of an open coal mine. It was the middle of a central Indian summer afternoon, and outside, the temperature had hit 45C. Up in the cab, 15 metres above the black, shiny ground, it was comfortable, air-conditioned. The driver tipped the steel-toothed rim of the shovel’s bucket downwards, then slammed it into the coal seam wall in front of him. A few hours earlier, a drilling rig mounted on caterpillar tracks had drilled deep holes into the coal from the flat ground above, and filled them with explosives. Their detonation broke the coal into diggable chunks, some of them pebbles, others a metre across. The seam being worked was 20 metres thick, and lay some 300 metres beneath what was once the ground’s surface – the deeper of two black stripes of coal. Overlying the seams, until it was blasted and dug away, were much larger quantities of grey-brown shale, what miners call “overburden”. Having been stripped from the coal, it lay stacked up in mountainous piles on either side of the mine, the walls of an artificial Grand Canyon. The surfac
e area of this mine, Dudhichua, is 16 square kilometres. In the year ending March 2015, Dudhichua produced 15m tonnes of coal – more than the UK’s entire remaining production. But it is only one of 16 mines in the Singrauli coalfield, which spans parts of two districts in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. All but one are owned by the state-run Northern Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India, one of the country’s biggest firms. As is the case with other Indian coalfields, Singrauli is home to numerous coal-fired thermal electricity plants, some almost on the doorstep of the mines. Their current aggregate capacity is about 20 gigawatts, nearly 10% of India’s total national generating capacity. (By comparison, peak electricity demand for the entire UK is only 57GW.) Singrauli may be one of India’s biggest energy hubs, but it is also isolated. Apart from the mines and power stations, the coalfield is home to a handful of towns, poverty-stricken villages and some prosperous corporate “colonies”, with their own schools, sports fields and clinics. To visit the area involves a 220km drive from the nearest airport at Varanasi, on a chaotic road that often lacks a proper surface: the journey can easily take eight hours. Phone signals and internet are intermittent. The only communications that really work are the high-voltage power lines that carry Singrauli’s output to the teeming cities of northern India’s plains. Last year, the coalfield’s total production was about 87m tonnes. (When the British coal industry began to decline with the outbreak of the 1984 miners’ strike, it was producing about 130m tonnes annually.) Singrauli’s significance – and that of the subcontinent’s many other coalfields, which span the length and breadth of India, with further large reserves in Pakistan – extends globally. In 2013, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that in order to restrict the increase of world average temperatures to 2C above pre-industrial times, the world must adopt a strict “carbon budget” for emissions. According to the IPCC, the current rate of fossil fuel burning will exhaust this within 25 years, after which fuels must either be left unexploited, or have their emissions kept from the atmosphere by carbon capture and storage. India has the world’s fifth-largest coal reserves – and very few cleaner fossil fuels, such as natural gas. Its leaders are also determined to spread the benefits of economic development more widely among its population of almost 1.3bn people – one third of whom still have no access to electricity. Anil Swarup, the permanent secretary at the coal ministry in Delhi, said in an interview that last year Indian production from both private and state-owned mines was 620m tonnes, more than 85% of it from open-cast workings. A further 400m tonnes were imported. At Singrauli and elsewhere, he added, production is set to increase rapidly, with strong encouragement from the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which swept to power last year. Modi is determined to restore the sustained GDP growth rate of 8-10% that India enjoyed for a decade until 2011.

The world governing body of football, Fifa, was plunged into an unprecedented crisis on the eve of its congress in Zurich after Swiss authorities arrested a string of officials in a dawn raid and opened criminal proceedings over the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. More than a dozen plainclothed officers descended on the five-star Baur au Lac hotel on Wednesday, where officials had gathered for Fifa’s annual meeting.The arrests were made on behalf of US authorities, after an FBI investigation that has been ongoing for at least three years. The US Department of Justice said authorities had charged 14 officials, nine of whom are current or former Fifa executives. Those arrested in Zurich face extradition to the US. Hours later, Swiss federal prosecutors said they had opened criminal proceedings in connection with the award of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar. The decisions have been shrouded in claims of bribery and corruption ever since the vote in December 2010. The Swiss authorities seized “electronic data and documents” in a raid on Fifa headquarters. Bank documents had earlier been collected from various Swiss financial institutions. Police will question 10 members of the Fifa executive committee members who took part in the World Cup votes. In a statement, the Swiss attorney general’s office said the executives were being questioned on suspicion of “criminal mismanagement” and money laundering. It said the timing of the operation was deliberately co-ordinated with the arrests on behalf of the US authorities “to avoid any possible collusion” between suspects and because a large number of those involved in the voting for the two World Cups were present in Zurich, where Fifa president Sepp Blatter was expected to be re-elected for another four-year term on Friday.At a later press conference at Fifa headquarters, spokesman Walter de Gregorio denied Blatter was in any way involved with either investigation and said that the Swiss proceedings were as a result of information provided by Fifa to the attorney general’s office in November 2014. He also confirmed that there was no suggestion that Russia or Qatar would lose the World Cup. The arrests on behalf of the US authorities form part of an international investigation into bribes worth $100m (£65m) spanning three decades. The allegations date back to the 1990s and involve “the acceptance of bribes and kickbacks”, Swiss officials said. Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb, of the Cayman Islands, was among those arrested. He is the head of Fifa’s north American regional body, known as Concacaf, which reported itself to US tax authorities in 2012. The organisation had not paid taxes for several years when its president was Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer was secretary general. As well as Webb, the Department of Justice statement confirmed the Fifa officials charged were Eugenio Figueredo, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Rafael Esquivel and José Maria Marin and Nicolás Leoz. A further four defendants were the sports marketing executives Alejandro Burzaco, Aaron Davidson, Hugo Jinkis and Mariano Jinkis. A further marketing executive, José Marguiles, was charged as an intermediary.

After their utter dismantling of the Atlanta Hawks—both in a 118-88 Game 4 victory and throughout the series as a whole—the Cleveland Cavaliers are back in the NBA Finals for the first time since 2007, and they'll be bringing quite a bit of high-level experience to the table. Well, relatively. LeBron James is the only member of the typical starting five who, prior to this season, had been to even the conference finals during his professional career, but the team's presumptive opponent has spent even less time operating on the sport's biggest stages. Yes, we're assuming that the Golden State Warriors will be representing the Western Conference. Even though the Houston Rockets rode some ridiculously hot shooting in Game 4 of their series with the Dubs and avoided elimination for another night, they're simply not going to be the first team to dig out of a three-game hole. Not against the best team in the NBA, one that will likely go down among the greatest squads in this sport's history. This upcoming and seemingly inevitable battle between the Warriors and Cavaliers will provide plenty of terrific storylines. We'll have Stephen Curry, this year's MVP, squaring off against James, who may well remain the best player in the world. Two tortured franchises will be attempting to get the proverbial monkeys off their backs. It will be a clash between the regular season's No. 3 offense(Cleveland) and No. 1 defense James Jones will be making his fifth trip to the NBA Finals after advancing that far during each of his last four years with the Miami Heat. Two of those experiences resulted in rings. Kendrick Perkins won a title in 2008 with the Boston Celtics, lost to theLos Angeles Lakers in seven games two years later and made another Finals journey with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Shawn Marion only made it to the Finals once, but when he did get there, he helped the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in 2011. Mike Miller was on the losing end that year, though he'd get redemption by winning titles alongside James and the rest of the Miami bunch each of the next two seasons. That's four veteran presences providing plenty of experience. And then there's James himself. Before this season, it seemed that a Finals appearance was against the odds for the four-time MVP. He himself admitted it, telling Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins in the official announcement of his return to Northeast Ohio, "I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now. No way. Of course, I want to win next year, but I'm realistic. It will be a long process, much longer than it was in 2010. My patience will get tested. I know that." Now, a championship, one that would be the third of his already legendary career, is so close that he can probably imagine the metallic taste of the Larry O'Brien Trophy. And he knows exactly what this experience is like, as two incredible stats can help make clear.

Once again, we talked to 10 of the hottest artists who are climbing the charts, breaking the Internet or just dominating our office stereos. This month: Kendrick Lamar's saxman Kamasi Washington, burgeoning country star Kelsea Ballerini, speedy post-hardcore quartet Super Unison, Mali's celebrated rock band Songhoy Blues and more.

Kamasi Washington :

Sounds Like: Jazz fusion that rockets everywhere from electric Miles groove to Sun Ra sputter, from velvety smooth to hardcore squawk — and still sounds as future-minded as any hip-hop or experimental electronic LP out

For Fans of: Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Weather Report

Why You Should Pay Attention: The Los Angeles saxophonist is the most audacious player in a movement making the electric flurry of Seventies fusion jazz cool again: His lush, bustling arrangements can be heard on both Flying Lotus' You're Dead and Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. His gorgeous debut opus, The Epic, is 173 minutes of virtuosic playing alongside a 20-piece choir, 32-piece orchestra and the West Coast Get Down, the eight-man jazz Wu-Tang Clan he's a member of alongside Thundercat. The group spent a month recording, working 10 to 12 hours a day, every day, resulting in, what Washington claims is eight individual solo projects, nearly 200 songs and two terabytes of music. The three-disc Epic, the first album released from the sessions, is 17 songs trimmed from 45. "The hardest part was shrinking it down," he says. "The 17 songs kind of became the complete sentence of what I wanted to put out. Any song that I take out, then I'm missing something."

Washington and the West Coast Get Down honed their connection with one another by practicing furiously in a shack in his dad's backyard in Inglewood, California. "We were at every concert and then we'd go home at 3 o'clock in the morning and play until 7 o'clock in the morning," remembers Washington. "I had cool neighbors. They knew me. They were just proud to see some young brothers doing something positive. Even though they were kind of mad like, 'Why are they up playing "Giant Steps" at 1,200 bpm for two hours from 3 to 5 o'clock in the morning?' We were just obsessed with the music, that's all we wanted to do."

He Says: I think people were starved for it,

says Washington of the sudden appeal of contemporary jazz. "And they had a misconception of what it was. We took it as a challenge. We played at like gothic clubs, literally, for a crowd where upstairs they have an apparatus where they're beating people with whips. . .That spiritual, soul-repairing thing that jazz has been missing in society for a while. People haven't had that fix. What fixes your spirit when Ferguson happens? When Trayvon Martin and those kind of things happen, they hurt your spirit, it hurts your heart and your soul. You need something to fix it. . .And now that they're getting it it's like, Oh wow, this is soul fix, not a history lesson.

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